[CTRL] LonTel: US is just playing around, says Northern Alliance
-Caveat Lector- http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/18/war1 18.xmlsSheet=/news/2001/10/18/ixhome.html US is just playing around, says Northern Alliance By Marcus Warren in Begrime, northern Afghanistan (Filed: 18/10/2001) THE first American strikes against front-line targets north of Kabul left anti-Taliban commanders distinctly unimpressed yesterday. Some military chiefs even complained that their enemy's morale was higher now than before the air campaign began. Northern Alliance soldiers march through a cemetary en route to positions on the front line The negligible scale of the allied air raids on the military outside the Afghanistan capital had convinced the Taliban that America was just playing around, one senior commander of the Northern Alliance forces said, citing reports from spies and connections in Kabul. An unidentified plane was seen banking away over the mountains soon after two explosions a few miles south of the front line yesterday afternoon in what appeared to be the first daylight raid in the area. Three bombs were dropped on Taliban positions six miles from Bagram, Afghanistan's largest air base, from early evening on Tuesday until dawn yesterday, the general in charge of the ruined airport confirmed. All the overnight bombs hit their target and one destroyed a small convoy of cars near a Taliban post, Gen Babajan said. Before the attack, the cars had their lights on but afterwards there was only darkness and the vehicles had been smashed to bits, he said. The strikes made good a threat earlier this week by Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, that the front line would not be a very safe place to be. Since the bombing began 10 days ago, Taliban fighters have sought shelter from the raids on Kabul by commuting by car to their positions near the Northern Alliance forces to the north of the capital. The Taliban's vehicle lights can easily be seen across the plains. However, Gen Babajan, who voiced the fears of many commanders of opposition forces at the weekend when he accused America and Pakistan of a plot to thwart any Northern Alliance advance on Kabul, was unenthusiastic about the attacks. Do you think three bombs will make much of a difference? he asked, sitting in the shade at his command post behind the bombed out airbase buildings. To observers on the Shamali plains, America appears to be doing the bare minimum to keep its allies fighting the Taliban happy but is determined not to encourage them to move on and to capture Kabul. There was even speculation that the bombs dropped overnight had been left over from other sorties and expended in an attack on B-list targets. One senior Northern Alliance commander expressed the fear that the minimal intensity of the bombing was strengthening the Taliban's resolve to resist America. Jan Akhamat, deputy military chief of Parvan province said: Before the bombing, the Taliban were worried about what sort of attacks would happen. Now the attacks are like this and their morale is better. He added: They think the Americans are just playing around. These three bombs are not enough. In fact they will mobilise the Taliban and make them stronger. Confidence in America, never high among anti-Taliban commanders, and faith in the likelihood of any significant military alliance with Washington, are evaporating rapidly. The United States is doing its own thing for its own benefit here, said Commander Akhamat, a sentiment shared by most of the anti-Taliban military leadership as well as many ordinary people. Washington's close co-operation with Pakistan, long an ally of the Taliban's extremist regime and hostile to the Northern Alliance, has only confirmed the suspicions of those fighting the Taliban on the ground that they are being used as cannon fodder by the West. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives
[CTRL] WSJ: The Iraq Connection
and fight was, in many ways, the hinge of the 20th century. Early in this new century, President Bush already faces one of its most momentous choices. He needs the best information any of us can give him. __ Mr. Woolsey, former director of Central Intelligence, is a lawyer in Washington. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends - Original Message - From: Ken Chafin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 9:50 PM Subject: CAS: WSJ: The Iraq Connection KNOW THY ENEMY The Iraq Connection Attack Saddam? It may be one of the most momentous choices of the 21st century. BY R. JAMES WOOLSEY Wall Street Journal-Thursday, October 18, 2001 12:01 a.m. EDT The professionally prepared and precisely sized anthrax spores that have infected some 30 congressional staffers and closed down the Capitol and the office of the governor of New York have made the point forcefully: When you are at war, the primary task should be to determine whom you are at war with. In most wars this is not a problem. Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990 the way the Japanese attacked us at Pearl Harbor--with flags flying. Even in our war two centuries ago with the Barbary Pirates, an enemy with some loose parallels to al Qaeda, we had no doubt which North African government sheltered them. Stephen Decatur knew whom to attack. This time it's different. Although the administration's decision to move first against the obvious target--the Taliban and their demonic al Qaeda guests--is sound, there are rising doubts that even a victory in Afghanistan, and even the capture or death of Osama bin Laden and his cohorts, will solve the problem. And this is not only because of al Qaeda operatives and street demonstrations in other countries. Removing bin Laden and his associates may only amputate one hand of our enemy. There are substantial and growing indications that a state may, behind the scene, be involved in the attacks. This is hard for us to deal with because, as Sen. Dianne Feinstein said recently, It's a very sobering thing for Americans, who tend to be upfront dealing with everything, to be faced with something so clandestine and unknown. When an enemy has a face and a name, this country can be awesome in its ability to mobilize quickly for war and win, as we did in both world wars. But we are now facing an enemy from a part of the world where the major aspects of war, for many centuries, have been clandestine raids, assassinations, terror against civilians, and deception. In response to the challenge Come out and fight like a man, we will get only smirks in the shadows and more anthrax, or worse. Some hold the view that no degree of sophistication--precisely prepared anthrax, coordination across continents, sophisticated training, professionally-stolen identities--is enough to indicate the strong probability of a state's being involved. Such a position was most succinctly stated by an unnamed FBI official to Seymour Hersh (in the Oct. 8 New Yorker), speaking of the Sept. 11 attackers: These guys look like a pickup basketball team. In your wildest dreams, do you think they thought they'd be able to pull off four hijackings? But for those of a more suspicious cast of mind, the degree of complexity and the sophistication of the attacks against us suggest that we have enough indications of possible state involvement for the government to be carefully and vigorously investigating. One central issue is state involvement in what? If we define the problem in such a way as to require proof (and make it proof beyond a reasonable doubt) of state involvement in the Sept. 11 attack itself, we will quite likely define ourselves out of being able to understand who is at war with us. Instead, we need to look at the pattern of terrorism against us over the last decade and reach a considered judgment in light of the whole picture, even if we cannot prove, to the demanding standards of criminal law, a state's involvement in the Sept. 11 atrocity itself. The weakest argument against the possibility of state involvement is usually implicit--that since al Qaeda is clearly involved in the Sept. 11 and other attacks, a state probably is not. But haven't such people heard of joint ventures? Do they think that international law imposes some sort of sole-source contracting requirement for terrorism? But which state? Well, whichever one turns up when you start looking. Iran, for example, has to be considered a possibility because--in spite of a rational president, a number of elected reformers, brave newspaper editors, and an electorate that solidly
[CTRL] Pravda: RUSSIAN SECRET SERVICES WIN THE GAME
-Caveat Lector- Pravda.RU:Main: More in detail By Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY PRAVDA.Ru LISBON PORTUGAL 11:02 2001-10-04 RUSSIAN SECRET SERVICES WIN THE GAME The FSB has pinpointed Bin Laden's location and has provided flight plans to the forces allied against terrorism, which are ready to strike at Afghanistan if Bin Laden is not handed over. The Taliban is showing signs that they might be ready to negotiate. It is believed that Osama Bin Laden is holed up in the almost impenetrable 7-kilometre high mountain fortress of Pamir, in northeastern Afghanistan. Flight plans into the area have been made available to the US-led coalition by the authorities of the Russian Federation. The FSB, the Russian Federation Secret Services, have been tracking the movements of Osama Bin laden for some time. The Taliban authorities are showing clear signs that they are willing to negotiate, unless there is a split in their leadership between hard-liners and more pragmatic realists who fear that an attack on their country would provoke a humanitarian disaster. The Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, Abdul Salam Zaeef, declared that the Afghan people need help, not war. He said that the humanitarian situation of the country was very precarious, with millions of displaced persons. In an apparent change of tone from the Taliban administration, if ambassador Zaeef is representative of the line of thinking in Kabul, he stated that we are the first to condemn what happened. We condemn terrorism and terrorist attacks. He added that if the Taleban were handed proof that Osama Bin laden was involved in the September 11 attacks, there would be negotiation to hand him over. This is significant because only yesterday, the Taliban Defence Minister Mullah Obaidullah, was declaring: Fight hard, defend your country. If your enemy is strong, our God is the strongest. The concrete proof was divulged by Washington yesterday afternoon through diplomatic channels. The exact content is classified information but it was declared that both Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden were involved in the attacks as authors and accomplices. It has been revealed that Bin laden himself made a telephone call to his mother moments before the attacks, telling her that he would not be able to communicate for some time because something important was about to happen. The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, declared today in Brighton that lasting good emerging from the shadow of evil must be the memorial for those who died or lost family members on September 11th. It could be that the determined position assumed by the alliance against evil, backed by most of the world's intelligence services, has forced the Taliban to change their minds regarding their most famous, or infamous, guest. With Pakistan resigned to the fact that action is going to be taken, countries which were formerly hostile to the USA, like the Sudan, have recently made declarations against terrorism and have started to detain suspects. The White House has made it clear that those who harbour terrorists will meet the same fate as the terrorists themselves. There seems to be a hidden and unwritten promise to the Moslem world that collaboration with the alliance against terrorism could augur well for the creation of a State of Palestine. Such would work wonders to defuse the present state of events in the world today. We are possibly on the threshold of the much-vaunted and hitherto invisible new world order, one in which rights are respected across the board, not just a chosen few and one in which the law of reason has more power than powerful lobbyists. The attacks on September 11th showed that nobody, anywhere, is untouchable. Collaboration, and not intrusion, is the order of the day. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL
[CTRL] Pravda: MILITARY OPERATION AGAINST AFGHANISTAN TO START
-Caveat Lector- Pravda.RU:Main:More in detail 13:10 2001-10-01 WESTERN MASS MEDIA: MILITARY OPERATION AGAINST AFGHANISTAN TO START IN SEVERAL HOURS British newspaper 'The Observer' describes details of the military operation against Afghanistan. According to this edition, the bombardments will start in several hours. Referring to sources in UK Ministry of Defence, The Observer reports that coordinates of the targets are inserted in the cruise missiles' warheads. The order to start operation could be given soon. The operation will start within 24 hours. According to The Observer, the main targets of the bombardments are the Taliban's aviation, which counts about 20 aircraft units, air-raid defence's forces, SKAD missile plants, and armour. After hitting these targets, the surface operation will start. The 82nd US landing division, 10th Alpine Division, American Rangers, Green Berets, and British infantry will be landed in Afghanistan. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] WP: FBI, CIA Warn Congress of More Attacks
be other such cells as yet undetected by law enforcement, some members of Congress were told. The investigative case has to take a back seat to preventing the next terrorist act, a senior law enforcement official said. That comes right from the top, from the president of the United States on down. In preparation, the FBI has a plan in place to go full tilt for 72 hours whenever the president decides to make a move against bin Laden, al Qaeda or Afghanistan's ruling Taliban government, the official said. At the investigation's command center in FBI headquarters, a team of analysts and agents has been working around the clock sifting through reports of potential threats since Sept. 11. U.S. officials acknowledge it is difficult to understand the motivation behind some of the threats they have learned about. In response to threats from bin Laden's network that were detected in June and July, for example, officials made decisions to abandon some U.S. embassies and to move Navy ships in foreign ports out to sea. Now, officials have concluded, the threats may have been disinformation designed to occupy officials' attention, or to allow bin Laden operatives to observe American counterterror lockdown methods, a knowledgeable source said. Shelby said law enforcement agencies believe terrorists will do something unexpected, and thus the agencies are trying to think out of the box in anticipating what might be ahead. However, he noted, bin Laden has been known to return to the same targets repeatedly, such as the World Trade Center, which terrorists with possible ties to bin Laden's group bombed in 1993. In 1999, a terrorist cell linked to bin Laden was thwarted in what one participant later testified was a plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport. A senior government official said yesterday that if al Qaeda follows its normal pattern, other attacks are in various stages of planning. The U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which were bombed in 1998, were first surveilled as targets in 1994, according to court testimony earlier this year. The government official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said bin Laden's terrorist organization likes to mix tactics and targets. Under that theory, more airplane hijackings seem less likely, because security has been increased. Ground-based operations, he said, seem more probable. Staff writers Dan Balz, Dan Eggen, Vernon Loeb, John Mintz and Walter Pincus contributed to this report. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] 9/10 Taliban Arrest 35 Afghans Working for Another Aid Group
-Caveat Lector- http://www.domini.org/openbook/afg20010910.htm Project Open Book http://www.domini.org/openbook Documenting the Persecution of Christians in the Islamic World Taliban Arrest 35 Afghans Working for Another Aid Group By Barbara Baker AFGHANISTAN: September 10 (Compass) -- Taliban authorities arrested 35 more Afghan aid workers over the weekend, bringing the total to more than 50 Afghans jailed by the strict Islamist regime since early August on suspicion of aiding covert Christian missionary work. According to international aid workers who asked not to be identified, at least 35 Afghans employed by the recently banned International Assistance Mission (IAM) were taken into custody at the Planning Ministry office in Kabul when they came to get their salary payment. Quoted yesterday by Associated Press (AP), the sources said a state- run radio broadcast had ordered Afghan staffers of IAM to come and collect their pay at the Planning Ministry, which coordinates all foreign aid organizations. When the Afghans showed up, they were arrested, AP reported. In a separate report from the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP), an expatriate aid worker said she knew of some 15 to 17 Afghan employees of IAM who had been arrested by the Taliban's religious police since the Christian relief group was shut down on August 31. I do not know the reason for their arrest, the aid worker told APP, but they were taken into custody during the first week of September and have not been seen since then. The Taliban have not yet confirmed or commented on the reported detentions. A private volunteer agency that had 117 professionals from 17 countries working in five cities of Afghanistan, IAM had employed some 300 Afghans in its projects of health, economic development, education and rehabilitation. Its entire foreign staff was expelled from the country 10 days ago. The Taliban have accused IAM and another Christian agency, SERVE, of links with the Shelter Now relief organization, shut down in early August for allegedly trying to convert Muslim Afghans to Christianity. The regime's religious police arrested eight foreigners and 16 Afghans working for Shelter Now. Speaking from Kabul today, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) told Compass that their office had no precise information at this moment about the alleged arrest of 35 Afghan IAM staff. Following established procedure, the Red Cross had last month informed the Taliban of their readiness, upon the regime's invitation, to visit Shelter Now's 16 Afghan detainees. A similar offer had been extended on behalf of the Christian relief group's foreign detainees, eventually visited by the ICRC on August 25. But so far, we haven't been called for the Afghans, the representative said. A senior Taliban official told Associated Press last week that some of the 16 Afghans working for Shelter Now would be either sentenced to life in jail or death by hanging. Those most endangered, local sources said, were the Afghans involved in teaching the local languages to the foreigners. According to the Taliban's deputy minister of religious police, any Afghan convicted of converting to Christianity would be given three days to recant and return to Islam. But even if spared the death penalty for repenting, the official said, the defendant would still face other punishments for betraying their religion and traditions. Taliban Minister for Vice and Virtue Mohammed Wali declared that the Afghans must be charged because they must have known what these foreigners were doing, and they did not report them. Although the Taliban claim to have strong evidence that Shelter Now's foreign staff were preaching Christianity, they have not presented proof that any Afghans had actually converted. Taliban officials continue to sidestep the death penalty possibility which hangs over both the foreigners and their Afghan workers, stating that once a verdict is reached, the punishment will be decided according to the principles of Islamic law. If the crime is worthy of imprisonment, they will be imprisoned, Chief Justice Noor Mohammed Saqib of the Taliban Supreme Court told Afghan Islam Press (AIP) last week. If the crime is worthy of hanging, they will be hanged. Copyright 2001 Compass Direct Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically
[CTRL] Origin of the Myth of a Tolerant Pluralistic Islamic Society
for as the (Muslim) religious courts neither admit documentary nor written evidence, nor receive Christian evidence, they could hope for little justice from them. The difficulty of imposing reforms in such a vast empire provoked this disillusioned comment (December 12, 1875) from Sir P. Francis, consul-general and judge at the British Consular Court in Constantinople: Indeed, the modern perversion of the Oriental idea of justice is a concession to a suitor through grace and favour, and not the declaration of a right, on principles of law, and in pursuance of equity. When reading the literature of the time, we see that the obstruction to Serbian, Greek and other Christians movements of liberation was rooted in two main arguments: 1) Christian dhimmis (rayas) are congenitally unfitted for independance and self-government. They should therefore remain under Islamic rule. 2) The Ottoman rule is a perfect model for a multi-religious and multi-ethnical society. Indeed, these are theological, Islamic arguments that justify the jihad, since all non-Muslim peoples should not retain political independance because their laws are evil and must eventually be replaced by Islamic rule. We find the same type of reasoning in the Palestinian 1988 Covenant of the Hamas movement, which affirms that only Islamic rule can give peace and security to Jews and Christians. Those arguments are very common in legal and theological literature and are advanced by modern Islamists.We have seen the origin of the myth, its political function and usefulness - and we have confronted this myth with the reality, described by contemporary observers in the nineteenth century. It is interesting to note the collusion between - on the one hand, the European powers defending the territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire, for their own national interest; and on the other hand, the Muslim policy aiming at keeping under subjection the Christian population. The myth didn't die with the collapse of the Turkish Empire after World War I. Rather, it took another form: that of the National Arab Movement, which promoted an Arab society, in which Christians and Muslims would live in perfect harmony. Once again, this was the fabrication of European politicians, writers and clergyman. And, in the same way as the myth of the Ottoman political paradise was created to block the independence of the Balkan nations, so the Arab multi-religious fraternity was an argument to destroy the national liberation movements of non-Arab peoples of the Middle East (the Kurds, Armenians, Assyrians, Maronites, as well as that of the Jews). And although from the beginning of this century until the 1930s, a stream of Christian refugees were fleeing massacres and genocide on the roads of Turkey, Irak and Syria, the myth continued to flourish, sustained mostly by Arab Christians writers and clergyman. After the Israelis had succeeded in liberating their land from the laws of jihad and dhimmitude, the myth reappeared in the form of a multi-cultural and multi-religious, fraternal Palestine which had to replace the State of Israel (Arafat's 1975 UN speech). Its pernicious effects led to the destruction of the Christians in Lebanon. One might have thought that the myth would end there, but suddenly the recent crisis in Yugoslavia offered a new chance for its reincarnation in a Muslim-dominated, multi-religious, multi-ethnic state. What a chance! A Muslim state again in the heartland of Europe. And we know the rest, the sufferings, the miseries, the trials of the war that this myth once again brought in its wake. The 1992 UN decision to recognize a multi-ethnic, multi-religious, Muslim state in the former Yugoslavia appears to have been a compensation offered to the Islamic world for the devastating 1991 Gulf War. The destruction of Iraq's nuclear, chemical and bacteriological arsenal, as well as its economic infrastructure, appears to be equitably counterbalanced by NATO's massive bombing of the Bosnian Serbs, even though the two situations cannot be compared. To conclude, I would like to say a few last words. The civilization of dhimmitude does not develop all at once. It is a long process that involves many elements and a specific mental conditioning. It happens when peoples replace history by myths, when they fight to uphold these destructive myths, more then their own values because they are confused by having transformed lies into truth. They hold to those myths as if they were the only garantee for their survival, when, in fact, they are the path to destruction. Terrorized by the evidence and teaching of history, those peoples prefer to destroy it rather than to face it. They replace history with childish tales, thus living in amnesia, inventing moral justification for their own self-destruction. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer
[CTRL] U.S. Law Says Membership in Terrorist Group,Or Advocacy of Terror, No Bar to Immigration
ideological, medical and communicable disease provisions. Mr. Barnett, an intern with the National Journalism Center, is at George Mason University, Fairfax, Va. c) HUMAN EVENTS, 2001 -- JIHAD IN AMERICA - ONLINE VIDEO A Time to Choose The New York Post reported on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has asked that the United States formally include Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah on its list of targeted terrorist groups in the wake of the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington. Such a step would establish that the governments of Iran, Syria and Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority (PA) -- all of whom harbor or support one or more of these groups -- would be deemed to be hostile regimes. Colin Powell's State Department is adamantly resisting this step, however. In fact, it is actively seeking to enlist the aforementioned (among other unsavory regimes, such as those of Sudan, Cuba and Algeria) as members of the anti-terrorism coalition. Just last Friday, Secretary Powell wrote members of the U.S. Senate opposing draft legislation aimed at imposing sanctions on the Palestinian Authority's access to weapons if it does not meet its commitments to fight terrorism. His letter claimed that, The Palestinian compliance legislation...would be counterproductive to our coalition-building and peace process efforts and we would like to see it withdrawn. In other words, even if you are not with us, you can continue to benefit from American legitimation and assistance. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] StarsSripres: Marine Corps creates new brigade to fight terrorism at home, abroad
-Caveat Lector- Friday, October 5, 2001 Marine Corps creates new brigade to fight terrorism at home, abroad By Sandra Jontz Stars and Stripes Washington bureau WASHINGTON - The U.S. Marine Corps created a new brigade Thursday to fight terrorism at home and abroad, and will give it the tools to fight. Vigilance with an attitude, and with the Marine muscle to back it up, is how Brig. Gen. Douglas O'Dell Jr. described the brigade, which combines three existing anti-terrorism units. O'Dell now commands the Chemical, Biological Incident Response Force, or CBIRF, which has been combined with the Marine Security Force Battalion and Marine Security Guard Battalion. In all, 4,800 Marines and sailors will make up the brigade, with plans to boost its end-strength over the next year by another 2,400, he said. For now, it will be headquartered at Camp Lejuene, N.C., but might eventually move to Norfolk, Va., he said. Right now, headquarters is me and my notebook, O'Dell quipped during a morning briefing with reporters at the Pentagon. The brigade now broadens and deepens the capabilities of units that have long been inherent to Marine Corps capabilities worldwide, O'Dell said. The brigade will focus on anti-terrorism efforts in defensive methods, O'Dell said. It is not a counter-terrorism entity that will work to snuff out terrorists. So far, the brigade is costing the Marine Corps $21 million. It will be about 80 percent mission-ready and capable for deployment by Oct. 10, and fully capable by Dec. 1. The Federal Emergency Management Agency will have to request, through the Joint Forces Command, the brigade's services for homeland disasters. Aid rendered abroad will fall under the commandant. The brigade will provide its own force protection for any missions overseas, and will rely on local police and national guardsman for homeland missions, he said. Marines and sailors of the CBIRF are trained to respond to disasters of chemical, nuclear and biological warfare to decontaminate areas and assist victims, hopefully turning victims into patients, he said. It was activated in 1996 following the Sarin gas attack on a Tokyo subway in 1995. The CBIRF team can be to a scene within the United States within 5 hours and anywhere in the world within 12. The rest of the brigade can be deployed worldwide within 72 hours. The Marine Security Force Battalion's main mission is to detect, deter and defend against threats, focusing on anti-terrorism. Marines are trained in countersurveillance, physical security operations and urban combat techniques. The Marine Security Guard Battalion's main mission is to provide security services to selected State Department missions, such as U.S. embassies. The Marine Fleet Antiterrorism Security Teams, which evolved in the late 1980s to respond quickly to threats against specific targets, also make up the brigade. O'Dell said he briefed both Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Navy Secretary Gordon England, both of whom think highly of the brigade. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] AFP: Bullet holes found in downed Russian jet:
-Caveat Lector- http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/051001/dlfor28.asp Bullet holes found in downed Russian jet: Reports AFP Moscow, October 5 Several holes resembling those made by bullets were discovered in recovered fragments of a Russian Tu-154 jet that crashed into the Black Sea, Moscow news agencies reported on Friday citing rescue officials. The captain of a dry cargo carrier conducting the rescue work reported finding at least three holes in the fragment of the recovered cockpit, reporting this information to the transportation ministry, which is leading an investigation into yesterday's accident, Interfax said. It is up to specialists to draw the final conclusion, the report quoted the deputy rescue work Chief Nikolai Burkov. Separately, ITAR-TASS reported that possible bullet holes were also discovered in a door of the passenger jet. Some 76 passengers, most of them Israelis, died on the flight, which left Tel Aviv for the western Siberian city of Novosibirsk. The investigation has focused on whether the plane was a victim of a terrorist attack. Other unconfirmed reports said the Sibir Air jet was accidentally shot down during military exercises in Ukraine. The reports of bullet holes would support suggestions that a terrorist may have been onboard the ill-fated plane, although Russian officials quickly declared that no conclusion could be reached on what caused the tragedy until a formal investigation is completed. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] AP: Bin Laden Conglomerate Can't Shake Osama's Shadow
and executed the expansion of the Holy Mosques and offered (the Bin Ladens) those exaggerated contracts, the influential editor wrote. Industry analysts estimate the project's total value to the Bin Laden Group at perhaps $10 billion. It appeared the views expressed in al-Sudairy were his own. Even so, such public grumbling is rare in the kingdom and could foretell shifting policy winds. Tim Metz, a New York-based spokesman for the Bin Laden family on matters separate from the company, dismissed the notion the monarchy might want to distance itself from the bin Ladens. Metz noted the kingdom had evacuated 22 bin Ladens from the United States after the Sept. 11 attacks because some feared reprisals by Americans. It's hard to believe they were in much disfavor, he said. --- Editor's Note: Associated Press writer David McHugh in Frankfurt contributed to this report. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] WP: Airliner Mssile Accidents
-Caveat Lector- October 5, 2001 Letters Editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To the Editor: The Defense Department was quick to report that our satellites detected a surface-to-air missile launched in Ukraine that may have downed the Russian airliner over the Black Sea. In a related story (p. 32, 10/5/01), the Post reported that there have been no known instances in which a civilian airliner was mistakenly shot down during testing exercises. It would be more accurate to say there have been no admitted instances. Hundreds of eyewitnesses saw what they believed to be a missile heading toward TWA Flight 800 before it crashed. The official finding was that a fuel tank explosion caused the crash and that all the eyewitnesses had mistaken the airliner, climbing and trailing burning fuel, for a missile. The FBI reports of what the eyewitnesses saw can be found on www.twa800.com. Michael Wire, eyewitness #571, was described by an analyst involved in the production of the CIA video simulation of the crash as the best eyewitness they had. Wire told the FBI he saw what he thought was a cheap firework ascending from the beach. He first saw it just above the roof of a house and that it arched over, went out to sea, and ended with an explosion that shook the 70-ton bridge on which he was standing. The CIA analyst falsely claimed that Wire changed his story, saying that what he saw was high in the sky when he first saw it. That was necessary to because the airliner was high in the sky, and Wire's statement was to be the basis of the claim that all the eyewitnesses mistook the plane for a missile. The FBI and NTSB both bought this. Radar data show the plane did not climb after the explosion and that a supersonic object was on a course intersecting with the plane. The Defense Department refuses to disclose what its satellites revealed about that. It won't acknowledge that missiles were fired in what James Kallstrom told me was a classified Navy maneuver. On Sept. 11, George Stephanopoulos, a senior Clinton adviser turned ABC correspondent, said on camera that there was a meeting in the most secure White House situation room in the aftermath of the TWA 800 bombing. He hasn't explained why he referred to it as a bombing and why it warranted a meeting in that room. Get the answers to those questions and the Post might find a precedent for an airliner to be shot down by a missile during a testing exercise. ___ Reed Irvine Chairman, Accuracy in Media Inc. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] LonTimes: Repressed homosexuality? - The Taleban
, death by stoning. In Pashtun society, man-woman love was the one that dared not speak its name: boy courtesans conducted their affairs openly. The taleb grew to maturity on the gruel of orthodoxy, estranged from the mitigating influence of women, family and village. This made early recruits to the movement disciplined and biddable. If their gynaeophobia appeared the product of a repressed homosexuality on the march, Taleban cohorts also conjured up echoes of a medieval children's crusade, with its associated elements of self-flagellation and an innocent trust in the immanence of paradise. The versatility of the Taleban elite, who alternate as military chiefs, governors and ministers, as well as mullahs, combined with the ingrained Afghan practice of adopting noms de guerre, argues in favour of the thesis that the movement merely clothed its membership in ecclesiastical titles to disguise their origins. This process of 'clericalisation' similarly transformed each enemy defection into a Damascene conversion, just as the enforcement of Sharia-based edicts in non-Pashtun regions added a patina of religion to what was essentially the imposition of martial law. It also veiled a coat rack of skeletons. 'Mullah' Muhammad Hassan, the Governor of Kandahar, had nothing to do with the religious world before his emergence as the Taleban's number three, while 'Mullah' Borjan, the movement's Rommel until his death in 1996, was a former Afghan army officer who had served under King Zahir Shah. Other military figures were in the Afghan Army until 1992, making a mockery of Mullah Muhammad Omar's claim that his goal was to rid Afghanistan of 'time-serving communists.' __ Michael Griffin is the author of Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] REU: Iraq Says U.S. Is a Terrorist; Israel Praises Islam
-Caveat Lector- http://www.pittsburghfirst.com/rc/news/docs/10231328.htm Iraq Says U.S. Is a Terrorist; Israel Praises Islam By Evelyn Leopold UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iraq accused the United States and Israel of terrorism on Thursday while Israel defended itself against a string of Arab accusations and praised Islam as one of the world's great religions. ``I would like to express my deeply held conviction that the three great faiths -- Judaism, Christianity and Islam -- share the same values and obey the same fundamental commitments,'' Israel's U.N. Ambassador Yehuda Lancry told the 189-member U.N. General Assembly during a counter-terrorism debate. ``Today, more than ever, our common spiritual heritage should inspire and nurture our actions for the betterment of our common being and our common destiny,'' he said. One by one, all General Assembly members, during four days of debate, have condemned the Sept. 11 attacks against the United States and promised to cooperate in a global coalition against its perpetrators. But the 22-member group of Arab nations, represented by Libya, on Tuesday called Palestinians victims of a different form of terrorism, supported their right to fight for a state and said ``occupation was equal to terrorism.'' Syria, in its speech on Wednesday spelled it out, saying: ''Occupation was the most savage form of terrorism, and so resisting this kind of occupation, including the Israeli occupation, is legitimate.'' On Thursday, it was Iraq's turn. Its ambassador, Mohammed Aldouri, said Israel and the United States were guilty of ''state terrorism.'' Washington not only fought to keep 11-year-old U.N. sanctions in place, bombed his country freely but trained dissidents to destabilize the Baghdad government. ``We cannot consider the legitimate struggle of the people of the world against sanctions and American and British colonial aggressions as terrorism, ``Aldouri said. ``What the American policy stands for toward the people of the world (is) hegemony, slavery and denying people's rights, legitimate interests and inspirations,'' he said. President Saddam Hussein has said that sending condolences to the U.S. government would be hypocritical. But Aldouri denied Iraq had gloated at the Sept. 11 disaster and said this was invented by the media and ``Zionist circles.'' Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz had sent condolence letters to ``some American personalities that have shown sympathy toward the people of Iraq,'' he said. ISRAEL: FIGHTING FOR IDEALS NO EXCUSE FOR TERROR In his speech, Israel's Lancry told the General Assembly that certain Middle East and other nations ``granted terrorists safe harbor,'' and gave them weapons, training and finances. ``Through their support, both active and tacit, these regimes have declared themselves the allies of terrorism, and bear no less responsibility than the terrorists themselves,'' he said, without mentioning any country by name. He characterized the conflict with Palestinians over the past year in the occupied West Bank and Gaza as ``legitimate self-defense against an indiscriminate and suicidal terrorist campaign'' in violation of signed accords. And he said Israel had been attacked by terrorists since its inception in 1948. ``Fabricating distinctions between different types of terror, though conveniently couched in the language of noble ideals, are an unforgivable insult to the memories of those who have perished.'' Lancry said. ``Let us be clear: the indiscriminate murder of innocent civilians to advance political or religious objectives is terrorism, not matter how its apologists seek to label it,'' Lancry said. Contending that thousands of people had been butchered in the name of an ideal, Lancry said, ``Terrorism is defined by what one does, not by what one does it for.'' Arab nations, such as Egypt, have called on Israel not to use the carnage in the United States as an excuse to escalate the conflict with Palestinians. Israel in turn has appealed to Washington not to seek Arab support for its campaign against terrorism at Israel's expense. The United States has applied pressure on Israel and the Palestinians to end a year of violence as it tries to draw Arab and Islamic countries into an anti-terrorism coalition to respond to the Sept. 11 attacks. The hijack attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington left 5,600 people dead or missing. Copyright C 2001 Reuters Limited. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap
[CTRL] Guardian: Israel attacks US campaign
-Caveat Lector- http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,563781,00.html Israel attacks US campaign By Suzanne Goldenberg in Tel Aviv and Virginia Quirke in Jerusalem Friday October 5, 2001 The Guardian The Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, renounced a week-old Middle East ceasefire last night, and accused Washington of sacrificing the Jewish state to win Arab support for a broad war coalition. The scathing attack on the western diplomatic campaign arrived only hours after a Palestinian gunman dressed in an Israeli paratrooper's uniform rampaged through a bus station in northern Galilee, killing three Israelis and wounding eight others. Mr Sharon said: Don't repeat the terrible mistake of 1938 when the enlightened democracies of Europe decided to sacrifice Czechoslovakia for a convenient temporary solution. Do not try to placate the Arabs at our expense. The statement added: We will not be able to accept that. Israel will not be Czechoslovakia. Israel will fight terror. The prime minister's blunt remarks and his resort to a metaphor that is a staple of Israeli rightwing rhetoric - the failed policy of appeasement that allowed Hitler's march across Europe - was aimed at domestic opinion. For all Washington's urging for Israel to reach a lasting ceasefire with the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, Mr Sharon remains preoccupied with placating coalition partners who are even further to the right, and Jewish settlers. After yesterday's attack on Afula, one of Mr Sharon's most extreme allies, the Russian immigrant leader Avigdor Lieberman, told Israel radio that the army should invade Gaza, and wipe out the Palestinian authority. Late last night, two armed Jewish settlers entered the isolated village of Jiljilya in the West Bank, and barricaded themselves inside a house before being rescued by the Israeli army. Palestinian officials said it was a hostage-taking operation; the Israeli army said the settlers had got lost. With those rightwing pressures in mind, Mr Sharon gave the strongest official confirmation so far that Israel was scrapping the week-old ceasefire agreed by Mr Arafat and his foreign minister, Shimon Peres. All of our efforts to arrive at a ceasefire were defeated at the hand of the Palestinians. The fire did not stop even for a day, Mr Sharon said. Thefore the cabinet directed the security apparatus to bring full security to the citizens of Israel. We can rely on ourselves, and from today onwards we will rely only on ourselves. On the ground, meanwhile, officials from Mr Arafat's Fatah faction accused Israel of resuming its strategy of assassinations after an activist, Rami Kamel, 21, lost a hand in an explosion in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. I hold the Israeli government responsible for this assassination attempt which comes after Israel's inner security cabinet decision to carry out assassinations, said Kamel Hmeid, a Fatah official in Bethlehem. Yesterday's attack in Galilee produced the first Israeli fatalities inside the Jewish state since the ceasefire. Witnesses described how the gunman, dressed as an Israeli army paratrooper down to the folded red beret in his epaulette, stepped off a bus from Tel Aviv. He entered a market and began shooting, emptying one magazine and reloading a second, as he took advantage of the confusion caused by his Israeli army uniform. Before he was shot dead by police, he had killed one man, 76, and critically wounded two women, who died later in hospital. The bus driver, Michel Harel, was making a phone call at the Afula station when he saw the gunman opening fire. I heard a series of shots at a murderous pace. There was a panic and everybody started to run, he told Israel radio. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. However, Israel radio said police discovered a letter in Arabic on the gunman's body, which may have been a suicide note, and a Palestinian ID card. Security officials said he may have come from Jenin, the Palestinian-controlled town on the northern edges of the West Bank, that is a stronghold of the Islamic Jihad. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what
[CTRL] BBC: Innocent Afghans pay for the terrorist attacks in US
was the latest in a wave of prosecutions in Uzbekistan in the past two years of Muslims accused of religious activities Source: BBC Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends - Original Message - From: toni howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: acas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 10:04 AM Subject: CAS: Innocent Afghans pay for the terrorist attacks in US I wonder if Osama bin Laden had used just half of his resources and energy for rebuilding Afghanistan instead of developing a terrorist network, at the good he could have done for the country instead of this: ~ Toni Innocent Afghans pay for the terrorist attacks in US http://www.khilafah.com/1421/category.php?DocumentID=2335TagID=2 PESHAWAR: Wrapped in rags and tied with a cloth strip from chest to legs, the little baby is fast asleep in his mother's lap near her tent at a squalid camp a couple of yards off the British era railway track near the posh Hayatabad Township. Named Jehangir -- means conqueror of the world -- the infant was born seven days ago in a truck which was carrying his pregnant mother and other family members who were fleeing from Kabul to Peshawar to save their lives in wake of the threat of US attack on Afghanistan. Jehangir spent the first two days of his seven-day life in the truck that brought his family along with their belongings to Peshawar via Parachinar on Pak-Afghan border. His family neither had means nor resources to take him to the doctor for medical check-up during that period. The next five days were even troublesome. After reaching Peshawar the family members had to search for some place to settle down. And when they found a vacant plot in midst of a residential area near Hayatabad town in Peshawar, they had more pressing things to do. It took sometime for them to erect wooden polls and casing and stretching cord and sheet to turn it into a place for shelter. The next challenge staring them in the eye was getting food for which they had no resources. The easier and immediate solution with the infant's father was to resort to begging in the local market and bazaars. It is but natural for both Jehangir and his mother, Pasta Gul, in this situation to go the background. Both the mother and the child and also the rest of the four siblings in the family are not getting enough food. They have no cots in their tents and sleep on a mat on the ground in their about 4x4 metre tent. The rest of the residents are also not in a less precarious situation. The settlement that sprouted during the 10 days houses about 100 families in cloth and sheet tents. The residents mostly belong to Kotah Sangi area in Kabul. Keeping in view the closure of Torkham border most of them trekked a long route to cross over to Pakistan via Miranshah and Parachinar. Their small quarters are situated adjacent to each other. Their small tents house not only about eight to 10 persons of the family but also all of their belongings that they could carry along from Kabul. Old wooden crates and boxes, dirty bedspreads and quilts, kitchen utensils, a lantern, etc, are common in these tents beside the humans. Many of the residents have brought quail in cages and hens and cocks all the way from Kabul. The small passages between the rows of the tents serve both as kitchen and washroom. They wash -- which they rarely do -- their clothes and prepare their food here. Many residents tie their sheep and goats with the tent pegs and wooden polls in the daytime. They take the cattle inside the tent in the night to protect them from thieves. Most of the residents, particularly children, are dressed in extremely shabby and torn-out clothes. Their skin is seemingly turning pale and their faces, feet and hands have gathered layers of dirt. The majority has no footwear. They gaze with empty and uncertain eyes. There is no bathroom and sanitation system available in the settlement. So is the case with water both for drinking and washing. The immigrants have to bring water from the nearby mosque in buckets, etc. Over and above, the settlement has been established in a residential area without any official approval and is thus devoid of legal cover. This not only makes them illegal immigrants but also divests them of any assistance in case of international aid for refugees. Thus more miseries. The threat of US attack seems to have catalysed the humanitarian crisis that was set off by more than 20 years of war and continued drought in Afghanistan. Strike or no strike, the Afghans are paying for the September 11 terrorist incident in Washington and New York that was presumably carried out by some Arab nationals. Miseries seem
[CTRL] Zero-Knowledge bags anonymity service
, Cottrell said. We're down to the point that you download this teeny little button, and you click it on and you're off. That's it. Observers said the timing of the announcement -- just weeks after terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania -- was sure to generate conspiracy theories about law-enforcement pressure to kill anonymity throughout the world. But even Broiles, a long-time opponent of federal restrictions on privacy technologies, said anyone who needed the extreme privacy protection Freedom offered, probably has many more things to worry about. I don't imagine there's anyone out there especially interested in knowing which Web pages I have read, said Broiles. But if I did, I would also worry about whether they had broken into my house and installed an (eavesdropping device) on my machine. The only people who have to worry about the NSA spending $100,000 to go after them just aren't the people we want as customers, said Anonymizer.com's Cottrell. That's a pretty scary group. Cryptome's Young wonders how much of a future anonymzing services have left. Although some privacy-aware people like them, others simply choose large, national ISPs on the theory that only a formal criminal investigation will likely divulge what they have been doing. And even then, he adds, using anonymity services poses risks to people whose best defense may be simply to blend in. Using anonymizers at all raises all sorts of red flags, Young said. Most of us now are using things other than anonymizers. Staying on the move, not using one system for very long, is what I tell people to do. C 2001 SecurityFocus.com, all rights reserved. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NYP: THE DOSSIER AGAINST BIN LADEN
associates was responsible for the detailed planning of the attacks. There is evidence of a very specific nature relating to the guilt of bin Laden and his associates that is too sensitive to release. 63. Osama bin Laden remains in charge, and the mastermind, of al-Qaida. In al-Qaida, an operation on the scale of the 11 September attacks would have been approved by Osama bin Laden himself. 64. The modus operandi of 11 September was entirely consistent with previous attacks. Al-Qaida s record of atrocities is characterized by meticulous long term planning, a desire to inflict mass casualties, suicide bombers, and multiple simultaneous attacks. 65. The attacks of 11 September 2001 are entirely consistent with the scale and sophistication of the planning which went into the attacks on the East African Embassies and the USS Cole. No warnings were given for these three attacks, just as there was none on 11 September. 66. Al-Qaida operatives, in evidence given in the East African Embassy bomb trials, have described how the group spends years preparing for an attack. They conduct repeated surveillance, patiently gather materials, and identify and vet operatives, who have the skills to participate in the attack and the willingness to die for their cause. 67. The operatives involved in the 11 September atrocities attended flight schools, used flight simulators to study the controls of larger aircraft and placed potential airports and routes under surveillance. 68. Al-Qaida s attacks are characterized by total disregard for innocent lives, including Muslims. In an interview after the East African bombings, Osama bin Laden insisted that the need to attack the United States excused the killing of other innocent civilians, Muslim and non-Muslim alike. 69. No other organization has both the motivation and the capability to carry out attacks like those of the 11 September only the al-Qaida network under Osama bin Laden. CONCLUSION 70. The attacks of the 11 September 2001 were planned and carried out by al-Qaida, an organization whose head is Osama bin Laden. That organization has the will, and the resources, to execute further attacks of similar scale. Both the United States and its close allies are targets for such attacks. The attack could not have occurred without the alliance between the Taliban and Osama bin Laden, which allowed bin Laden to operate freely in Afghanistan, promoting, planning and executing terrorist activity. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] WSJ: Grand-Jury Secrecy Rules Help the Terrorists
. As well, the grand jury rules have the effect of putting Justice in a position of primacy among the agencies. Currently, the Justice Department can make exceptions to the no-sharing rule, but only for CIA analysts who agree to work as prosecutors' assistants, and so long as prosecutorial goals take precedence over intelligence ones. After a bit of wobbling, however, the administration now seems ready to overcome bureaucratic turf issues and fight for this reform. But there remains substantial opposition in Congress. The question is whether we will sacrifice this long-overdue change for a civil liberties concern that is more slogan than reality. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NW: FBI agents weren't given approval by the Justice Department
-Caveat Lector- FBI agents in Minneapolis weren't given approval to search terrorist suspect's hard drive by the Justice Department. If 'two and two' were put together could hijackings have been stopped, asks one investigator. By Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE Oct. 1 - Top Justice Department and FBI officials turned down a request by Minneapolis FBI agents early last month for a special counterintelligence surveillance warrant on a suspected Islamic terrorist who officials now believe may have been part of the Sept. 11 plot to attack the World Trade Center and Pentagon, NEWSWEEK has learned. THE HANDLING OF the case of Zacarias Moussaoui-who is now being held in detention in New York-has raised new questions about how U.S. law enforcement officials handled critical intelligence that, in retrospect, might have alerted them in advance to the deadliest terrorist plot in U.S. history. Sources familiar with the case tell NEWSWEEK that FBI agents in Minneapolis seized Moussaoui's computer in mid-August after officials at an Eagan, Minn., flight school tipped them off that the 33-year-old French citizen was acting suspiciously. Moussaoui had sought training only in making turns-not take-offs and landings-and specifically asked about flying over New York air space, officials said. But, while Moussaoui himself was placed in detention on minor immigration charges on August 17, agents in Minneapolis were never given approval by Justice Department officials in Washington to open up the hard drive on the suspect's computer. The Minneapolis agents sought approval to do so-and to take other investigative steps aimed at Moussaoui-in early September under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), officials said. This came after a FBI trace-a request for information from friendly foreign governments-yielded a report from French intelligence that Moussaoui had been associated with members of an Algerian terrorist group and may have traveled to Afghanistan. When agents finally cracked into the computer hard drive after the Sept. 11 attack, officials found new information that only made them more suspicious about Moussaoui. Among the contents, sources said, was data on wind patterns relating to crop-dusters as well as a wealth of other information he had pulled down from the Internet involving crop-dusting aircraft. The information was considered sufficiently alarming that FBI officials requested the immediate downing of all crop-dusting aircraft, fearing that terrorists might be plotting to use them for a chemical or biological attack. (The planes have since been allowed to fly-but not over urban areas.) From the moment he was detained more than six weeks ago, Moussaoui has consistently refused to cooperate with U.S. law enforcement and many officials are now highly suspicious of his conduct. One widely held theory among the law enforcement community is that Moussaoui-who entered the country only last February after living in London-was supposed to have been the fifth hijacker on the United Airlines flight that crashed in southwest Pennsylvania, the only one of the four seized that day that had only four, instead of five, hijackers aboard. But there is still no consensus on the matter. The bottom line is that nobody in the intelligence community has been able to figure out what this guy was up to, said one official. Nevertheless, in the wake of the Sept. 11 attack, the rejection of the FISA warrant has produced tension between field agents in Minneapolis and their Justice Department and FBI superiors in Washington. Officials in Washington are adamant that there was insufficient grounds to approve the warrant based on what was produced by Minneapolis agents. There does not seem to be any disagreement that the legal standards [for a FISA warrant] weren't met, said one top U.S. law enforcement official. The law requires the bureau to show evidence that the suspect is an agent of a foreign power or terrorist group, something the Minneapolis field agents never had, the officials said. But other law enforcement officials are equally insistent that a more aggressive probe of Moussaoui-when combined with other intelligence in the possession of U.S. agencies-might have yielded sufficient clues about the impending plot. The question being asked here is if they put two and two together, they could have gotten a lot more information about the guy-if not stopped the hijacking, said one investigator. © 2001 Newsweek, Inc. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER
[CTRL] DT: Dogs set ablaze as warning to Taleban's opposition
-Caveat Lector- October 1, 2001 Dogs set ablaze as warning to Taleban's opposition Afghan refugees describe campaign of terror Julius Strauss The Daily Telegraph DASHTI QALA, AFGHANISTAN - The Taleban herded the population of the war-ravaged northern town of Taleqan into its main square. Then they began parading three dogs. Each had a shaved head stencilled with the names of the men the movement most despised: Burhunnadin Rabbani, the ousted Afghan president, Zahir Shah, the exiled king, and George W. Bush, President of the United States. Then they poured gasoline on the dogs and set fire to them. Noor Muhammad, a proud 52-year-old farmer from a nearby village, was among the witnesses. Muhammad Qul, 55, and Abdul Karim, 48, were also there. The three men sat in a refugee camp yesterday surrounded by a sprawling dust plain in opposition-held territory a few kilometres from the front line. They had arrived only hours before after an overnight escape. The three men and their families are the victims of the latest Taleban terror campaign. Facing the prospect of a pulverizing Western bombing campaign that may oust them from power, the fundamentalist rulers of Afghanistan are exacting a terrible revenge against those they suspect of disloyalty. The burning of the dogs 10 days ago was only meant to serve as a warning. Last Friday, at midday prayers, the Taleban struck a second, more telling blow against the local population. First they surrounded the mosque with soldiers. Then a Taleban agent was sent to accompany the mullah to say prayers. The mullah told all the men to fight for Islam, Noor Muhammad said. Then he asked for volunteers. We all put our hands up. We were very scared and thought we would be taken to prison or shot otherwise. On Saturday night, a truck came into the village carrying a dozen Taleban soldiers who began knocking on doors looking for young men. Where they found no men, they started looting. The victims were told they should already have sold their possessions and given the money to Islam. They said we should fight the Americans who want to take away Islam, Noor Muhammad said. Then they began burning the houses where they couldn't find young men. They must have burned down 10 or 20 of the 200 houses in the village. For those who signed up, fate was little better. Each was given a gun and assigned a commander. They were then driven or marched off to collection points to prepare to fight the Americans. When the first strikes come, the unwilling volunteers will be on the front line. Noor Muhammad decided to flee with his family. Late Saturday night, his and two other families set off into the mountains. We knew some sympathizers of the Northern Alliance, he said. They guided us by moonlight between the Taleban and the minefields. As he surveyed his new home yesterday, he looked harried. Some refugees have been in the camp for a year. Muhammad Nazar, an 80-year-old neighbour in the camp with a hoarse voice and receding gums, came as close as an Afghan does to pleading. When are you going to bomb the Taleban? We are waiting and waiting. Five days ago, Taleban soldiers burst into Muhammad's house in Taleqan. When he refused to say where his sons were, they took his rugs and family valuables and then set fire to the building. They wanted our sons to fight against the Americans, he said. But when are the Americans going to strike back? War against the Taleban is the last hope for the thousands of refugees in Dashti Qala camp, surely one of the world's most bleak. In summer, temperatures soar to nearly 50C. In winter, they hover at around 10C. Last winter, residents say 40 of their number died of cold. Most of the aid agencies that feed them have now left. It's more than three weeks since they last got food, said John Weaver, a U.S. aid worker who decided to stay despite the risks. In the baking dust yesterday, Qazi Gul, 70, showed her home for the last year. It is a ragged khaki-coloured tent about one metre by three. She shares it with five others. The area is without road or rail and travellers must make tortuous journeys on dangerous mountain roads. Most northern Afghans drive battered Russian jeeps at breakneck speed. There are no traffic lights, speed limits, drivers' licences or number plates. Taleban-held territory by contrast has roads, infrastructure, electricity and even internal scheduled flights, luxuries unimaginable in the territory of the Northern Alliance. National Post Online is a Hollinger / CanWest Publication. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational
[CTRL] WP: Bin Laden Followers Reach Across Globe: Clinton's FBI Learned In 1995 Of Plot To Use Terror Jetliner
labor syndicates such as law and engineering, Atta's trade. Islamic investment groups offered high returns and ample charity through shaky pyramid schemes. When the military expertise of returning Afghan fighters was linked with the increasingly popular radical sermons of Abdel Rahman -- later convicted as an organizer of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing -- and a flow of money and weapons from Zawahiri, Atef and others, the result was almost civil war. Taha's Islamic Group had a popular base so wide that the entire Cairo neighborhood of Imbaba declared itself an independent Islamic state. Zawahiri's Egyptian Islamic Jihad went for higher-profile targets outside the country, nearly assassinating Mubarak in Ethiopia in 1995, and bombing Egypt's embassy in Pakistan. Countered by an increasingly effective Egyptian police force -- more than 600 suspected terrorists and planners were executed or killed between 1992 and 1997 -- there has not been an acknowledged terrorist attack since the November 1997 murder of 58 foreign tourists in Luxor, a massacre that turned the population squarely against the militants. Soon after the Luxor killings, leaders of the Islamic Group called a cease-fire, arguing that violence had failed to advance them toward the goal of making Egypt an Islamic state. But in Afghanistan, Zawahiri wanted none of it. After more than a decade at bin Laden's side, he formally merged Egyptian Islamic Jihad with his al Qaeda to form a combined World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders. The name reflected the distance Zawahiri had traveled since the 1970s. The group that once had formed around Sadat's murder was no longer satisfied with opposing the iniquitous princes in charge of the Arab world. Now, they believed, they were after the power behind the throne. Struck reported from Manila, Schneider from Amman and Cairo, Vick from Aden and Baker from Tashkent. Staff writer Bill Branigin contributed to this report. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] LAT: FTC to back off of Privacy Issues
-Caveat Lector- http://latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-100201privacy.story Los Angeles Times latimes.com October 2, 2001 FTC to Drop Push for More Privacy Laws Legislation: Trade agency will abandon Clinton administration's call for tougher measures and focus on enforcement and education. By EDMUND SANDERS, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON -- Reversing a Clinton administration policy, the new head of the Federal Trade Commission is withdrawing the agency's call for tougher newprivacy laws and instead focusing on increasing the enforcement of existing rules and boosting education efforts. Under the initiative--to be formally announced Thursday by FTC Chairman Timothy J. Muris--the agency plans to increase staffing for privacy-related programs by nearly 50% and reallocate funding from other programs to combat identity theft and educate consumers about how they can safeguard their privacy, according to sources familiar with the plan. The new policy will substantially darken the prospects for more than a dozen online privacy bills currently pending on Capitol Hill, though the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks already had put those bills on a back burner as Congress focuses on more-pressing issues. FTC officials declined to comment Monday, saying details about staffing and funding levels under the new policy would be unveiled in a speech by Muris to business and privacy leaders in Cleveland. The agency has about 1,049 employees and a 2001 budget of $147 million. Muris, a Bush appointee and a frequent critic of government regulation, spent nearly four months studying the privacy issue, meeting with consumer groups, business leaders and academics. The chairman concluded that new laws would provide little benefit to consumers and would place costly burdens on businesses, according to sources close to Muris. Instead, Muris will emphasize industry self-regulation and stronger enforcement of existing laws and regulations that protect consumer privacy and prohibit unfair or deceptive practices. That will include an increase in FTC enforcement actions taken against Web sites and other companies that fail to live up to their privacy policies, according to a source at the FTC. Though the commission has used the threat of lawsuits and regulatory action to get the private sector to improve privacy protections, the agency's enforcement record on privacy has been relatively thin. In the past, FTC officials argued that they lacked the necessary legal authority to crack down on abuses. The FTC's best-known enforcement action came against the now-defunct Web retailer Toysmart, which attempted to sell its customer information after filing for bankruptcy, even though it had promised to keep the data private. The company eventually agreed to destroy the database. The stance against new privacy laws differs from that of Muris' predecessor, Robert Pitofsky, who had concluded last year that current laws were inadequate to protect consumers online. Under Pitofsky, the agency called upon Congress to enact legislation that would provide a minimum level of protection, including requirements that Web sites disclose what sort of personal information they collect and give consumers a chance to keep their data private. That policy led the FTC's two Republican commissioners--then in the minority--to dissent, arguing that the agency's stance went too far. The arrival of Muris in June gave the FTC a Republican majority. In a speech this summer, Orson Swindle, one of the Republican commissioners, said that the new FTC majority is more concerned about the cost of regulation. Privacy advocates welcomed increased FTC enforcement and funding for privacy issues, but they reiterated the call for tougher federal laws. The stance against new legislation is a big step backward, said Sarah Andrews, research director for the Electronic Information Privacy Center, an advocacy group in Washington. It really negates all the work that the staff did last year. There's really no reason to think that the situation has gotten any better. Opponents of new privacy laws say the issue is too complicated to address through legislation. They point to this summer's implementation of a financial privacy law that required banks and insurers to mail disclosure notices to their customers outlining what sort of information they collect and how they use it. The law cost the industry several billion dollars and left many consumers confused. Even before the FTC's new stance, momentum in Congress for approving new online privacy laws was slowing, particularly after Sept. 11. The attacks took much of the wind out of the sails for privacy issues on the Hill, said Jeffrey Eisenach, president of the Progress Freedom Foundation, a conservative research organization in Washington. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL
[CTRL] AP: Computer Robots Gather Intelligence
in the intelligence community favored tighter restrictions on network access, especially after the arrest on attempted spying charges last month of retired Air Force sergeant Brian P. Regan, who had access to Intelink, a shared intelligence network, said Aftergood. After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, worries about network security were overridden by national security fears, Hendler said. In the intelligence community, they're realizing interoperability is absolutely crucial, Hendler said. The agencies need concepts like agents to bring them together. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] CARNIVORE: Every link you take, every click you make: The FBI could be watching you
anti-terrorism laws would extend the definition of trap and trace to include the tracking of web sites a user visits. This is where Carnivore comes in. Under the proposal, agents could use Carnivore to track the web surfing of anyone they wanted to, Stanley says, without even having to convince a judge of the need to do so. This ignores the fundamental difference between phone conversations and web surfing, Stanley says. A list of the URLs that you are visiting is more than that-it's really a list of the URLs you're reading. That tells them what you're thinking about, what you're interested in, and who you are as a person. Caution in Washington, D.C. Though anti-terrorist sentiment still runs high in Washington, D.C., some politicians have proceeded with caution into debates over the proposed legislation. In committee hearings over the bill that was passed the week of the attacks, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), chairman of the Senate judiciary committee, urged lawmakers not to lose sight of civil liberties in their zeal to catch terrorists. That bill passed anyway, but offering the civil liberties perspective is still one of his primary goals with the current proposal. Said a spokesperson with Leahy's office, the Senator still wants to do what the administration has called for in ways that will protect Americans' civil liberties. Leahy has even drafted an alternative proposal to Attorney General John Ashcroft's that he hopes will demonstrate how terrorism in the digital age can be fought without hampering individual rights. With President Bush and Ashcroft backing more wide-ranging forms of the proposal than his, however, Leahy is facing an uphill battle. Ashcroft told Leahy's committee this Tuesday we are today sending our troops into the modern field of battle with antique weapons. Technology has dramatically outpaced our statutes. Law enforcement tools created decades ago were crafted for rotary telephones-not email, the internet, mobile communications and voice mail. Carnivore: All Bark and No Bite? In the end, Carnivore might not even be capable of snaring its intended targets, says Shari Steele, executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The problem, Steele says, is that if someone is encrypting a message, it would be very difficult for [agents] to break it. Encryption allows internet users to encode their messages so that only the recipient, who has a special electronic key, can unlock them. Terrorists have long been thought to harness privacy programs to conceal their electronic communications, and some are thought to have found even more complicated methods of concealment. The safeguard might not work for long, as Steele says she expects legislation soon that could give the government special access to the keys unlocking encryption schemes. This would be a victory for the FBI, which since the late 1990s, has made concerted efforts to force privacy companies to install special back-door access systems. Rights groups and the manufacturers of encryption tools, however, have successfully fought this effort, noting that hackers could possibly break in through back doors as well. Encryption, however, is the next frontier. Until any such legislation is proposed, groups such as Steele's will be focused on the current anti-terrorism act. Said Steele, overall, the entire act could shift the balance of power between law enforcement and the other branches of government. Law enforcement is going to be able to get a whole lot more information about Americans without anyone looking over their shoulder. _ Copyright 2001 Yahoo! and http://rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/*http://www.courttv.com/ Courtroom Television Network LLC. All Rights Reserved. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html
[CTRL] JANES: Vital intelligence on the Taliban may rest with its prime sponsor - Pakistan's ISI
in Kandhar that emerged as the Taliban. The ISI used funds from Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's federal government and from overseas Islamic remittances to enrol graduates from thousands of madrassahs (Muslim seminaries) across Pakistan to bolster the Taliban (Islamic students), who were led by the reclusive Mullah Muhammad Omar. Thereafter, through a ruthless combination of bribing Afghanistan's ruling tribal coalition (which was riven with internecine rivalry), guerrilla tactics and military support the ISI installed the Taliban regime in Kabul in 1996. It then helped to extend its control over 95 per cent of the war-torn country and bolster its military capabilities. The ISI is believed to have posted additional operatives in Afghanistan just before the 11 September attacks in the US. Along with Osama bin Laden, intelligence sources say a number of other infamous names emerged from the 1980s ISI-CIA collaboration in Afghanistan. These included Mir Aimal Kansi, who assassinated two CIA officers outside their office in Langley, Virginia, in 1993, Ramzi Yousef and his accomplices involved in the New York World Trade Center bombing five years later as well as a host of powerful international narcotics smugglers. Opium cultivation and heroin production in Pakistan's northern tribal belt and neighbouring Afghanistan was also a vital offshoot of the ISI-CIA co-operation. It succeeded not only in turning Soviet troops into addicts, but also in boosting heroin sales in Europe and the US through an elaborate web of well-documented deceptions, transport networks, couriers and payoffs. This, in turn, offset the cost of the decade-long anti-Soviet 'unholy war' in Afghanistan. The heroin dollars contributed largely to bolstering the Pakistani economy, its nuclear programme and enabled the ISI to sponsor its covert operations in Afghanistan and northern India's disputed Kashmir state, according to an Indian intelligence officer. In the 1970s, the ISI had established a division to procure military nuclear and missile technology from abroad, particularly from China and North Korea. They also smuggled in critical nuclear components and know-how from Europe - activities known to the US but ones it chose to turn a blind eye to as Washington's objective of 'humiliating' the Soviet bear remained incomplete. A Director General, always an army officer of the rank of lieutenant general, heads the ISI, which is controlled by Pakistan's Ministry of Defence and reports directly to the chief of army staff. As the current ISI chief, Gen Ahmed is assisted by three major generals heading the agency's political, external and administrative divisions, which are divided broadly into eight sections: * Joint Intelligence North: responsible for the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Kashmir insurgency. This section controls the Army of Islam that comprises Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda group and Kashmiri militant groups like the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (banned by the US last week), Lashkar-e-Toiba, Al Badr and Jaissh-e-Mohammad. Lt Gen Mohammad Aziz, presently commanding the Lahore Corps and a former ISI officer, reportedly heads the Army of Islam, which also controls all opium cultivation and heroin refining and smuggling from Pakistani and Afghan territory * Joint Intelligence Bureau: responsible for open sources and human intelligence collection locally and abroad * Joint Counter-Intelligence Bureau: tasked with counter-intelligence activities internally and abroad * Joint Signals Intelligence Bureau: in-charge of all communications intelligence * Joint Intelligence Miscellaneous: responsible for covert actions abroad, particularly those related to the clandestine procurement of nuclear and missile technologies * Joint Intelligence X: looks after administration and accounts * Joint Intelligence Technical: collects all technical intelligence other than communications intelligence for research and development of equipment * The Special Wing: runs the Defence Services Intelligence Academy and liaises with foreign intelligence and security agencies. The concern now for General Musharraf is whether the ISI will remain loyal to him and provide the US with credible information or continue to pursue its aims of ensuing the Taliban's continuance in Kabul, said one intelligence officer. The US, he added, will pull out of the region once its objectives have been achieved, but Afghanistan, with its incessant and seemingly irresolute turmoil, will remain Pakistan's neighbour for good. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic
[CTRL] DEBKAfile: As US-Russian Force Prepares to Go into Afghanistan: Mid East is Temporarily Sidelined
indication, according to DEBKAfile's military sources, of preparations by Bin Laden and his network of militant Islamic fundamentalists to launch two fronts - in the Balkans and in Central Asia - to attack US and allied forces as they open their offensive in Afghanistan. NATO maintains 60,000 servicemen in the Balkans, one third American; US strength in the former Soviet republics of Central Asia now stands at some 15,000. Washington's hopes of bringing Arab nations into its anti-terror coalition were further dashed Monday, September 24, when Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, both called Syrian President Bashar Assad with a promise of any political and military support he might need to frustrate an American strike against the militant Shiite Hizballah in Lebanon and the radical Palestinian groups based in Damascus. Saddam disclosed he had placed his armed forces on supreme battle preparedness in anticipation of the United States following up on its operation in Afghanistan with an assault on Iraq in an attempt to topple his regime. DEBKAfile's military sources confirm that the Iraqi army was placed on its highest preparedness at the end of last week. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians are reported fleeing Baghdad and Basra and making for remote villages. Another sign of the rising tension in Iraq is the airlift Beijing has instituted to remove the 1000 Chinese technicians and military men upgrading Iraqi air defense command centers with new optic fibers systems. These major military movements heavily overshadowed Yasser Arafat's abruptly aborted trip to Damascus Tuesday and the news that his oft-delayed and unpopular meeting with Israeli foreign Minister Shimon Peres in Gaza would finally come off Wednesday morning. If that meeting does indeed come about, the two are expected to sign a memorandum affirming a cessation of hostilities, the application of the ceasefire negotiated by CIA director George Tenet four months ago and of the first stages of the recommendations made by former Senator George Mitchell and his team. According to DEBKAfile's sources in Washington, Arafat had already set out for his long-awaited meeting with the Syrian president in Damascus, when he turned round and retraced his steps to Gaza. He changed course after US secretary of state Colin Powell had harangued him by telephone from before he embarked from Dahaniyeh airport in Gaza all the way to Amman. Powell finally slapped down an ultimatum: Go to Damascus and meet Assad, and he would not only burn all his bridges to Washington once and for all, but he would be deemed to have lined up with Saddam Hussein once again as he did in the 1991 Gulf War - only this time there would be no forgiveness from Washington and he could expect full punishment. Arafat, when his plane touched down in Amman, ordered his pilot to turn back. __ HOT SITE! For viewers who may have wondered about the USATODAY Hot Site banner that blossomed atop this page, here's an explanation: On 28 September, the following message was received at the DEBKAfile Editorial Office: Your site was selected as a Hot Site in today's edition of USATODAY.com. Just as we do with top-rated movies and TV programs, we look daily for Web sites that are likely to be sure hits with readers - sites that seek to astound and delight, inform or amuse - by exhibiting something remarkable in graphics, content of both. Feel free to tell the online world by displaying our Hot Site logo. Your site may also appear in the hard-copy of USA TODAY. Again congrats on a hot site. Sam Meddis Technology Editor USATODAY.com _ DEBKAfile EDITORS INTERVIEWED On September 26, The New York Observer ran an interview with the editors of DEBKAfile by Sridhar Pappu and Gabriel Snyder under the caption: A Web Site With the Inside Dope on the Middle East. To read the article, click here: Copyright © 2001 Debkafile. All Rights Reserved. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply
[CTRL] DailyTel: Bin Laden's secret goal is to overthrow the House of Saud
that Saudi religious dissidents will heed the call of bin Laden and rise up against the regime. Such a scenario provides a clear escape route for bin Laden from the closing ring of fire around Afghanistan. Should he be able to escape and seek refuge among the thousands of supporters in Saudi Arabia, he will no doubt be greeted as a Mahdi, whose arrival on the sacred soil of Saudi Arabia will mark a dramatically new geopolitical landscape. The radicalisation of Iran by the ayatollahs pales by comparison. Possibilities of widespread regional conflict may emerge as the latest military equipment and the vast reserves of Saudi oil become available to facilitate bin Laden's strategic goal - to destabilise and undermine the Western economic system. The author is strategic fellow at the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies in Washington DC Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] TOL: Satellite 'picks out bin Laden caves'
-Caveat Lector- A new and different slant on these bunkers, but hardly an improvement for OBI over earlier reports ... and it is nice to learn that this finger of land has a real name ... the 'Wakhan corridor.' --MS http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001340007-2001342104,00.html WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 03 2001 Satellite 'picks out bin Laden caves' BY ZAHID HUSSAIN IN ISLAMBAD AND MICHAEL EVANS, DEFENCE EDITOR OSAMA BIN LADEN may be hiding in caves near a former Russian base in the Pamir mountains close to the border between Afghanistan and Tajikistan, according to reports in Pakistan. Pakistani intelligence is convinced, the reports said, that bin Laden and hundreds of his associates have taken refuge in an extremely inaccessible nook of Pamir in the Wakhan corridor bordering Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan and China. A report published in a leading Pakistani newspaper claimed that bin Laden's presence in the region had been confirmed by satellite and human intelligence. The Pamir mountains, known as the 'roof of the world', are a highly treacherous range, 20,000ft to 25,000ft high, which would make it difficult to find the exiled Saudi terrorist. The nearby former Russian military base at Wakhan, near Kunduz, was built by the Soviet Union during its occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s. Bin Laden was reported to have constructed a bunker in caves near the base after two of his training camps in Afghanistan were attacked by American Tomahawk cruise missiles in 1998. The caves have exit routes to Tajikistan, China's Muslim-dominated Xinjiang province and Pakistan, where bin Laden has support. The reports claimed that Russian intelligence had informed the Americans of the routes to the Pamir base. Pakistanms military Government has agreed to share intelligence information with the United States. Some observers believe, however, that Islamabad may try to withhold some crucial information because of the fear that it might be passed to Afghanistanms opposition Northern Alliance, which has its headquarters in Badakhshan province, close to Wakhan. Mark Galeotti, a Russian expert with Jane's Intelligence Review, said that the geography of the Pamirs would not offer the ideal hiding place to bin Laden, unless he had succeeded in constructing his own bunker inside the mountain. He said there was no evidence that the Russians had built deep bunkers in the area that could now be used by bin Laden. They had no need for impregnable bunkers because their opponents had no heavy artillery, he said. He also rejected the suggestion in the Pakistani reports that the Russians had built a bunker in the Pamir mountains to house tactical nuclear weapons. Mr Galeotti said that considerable engineering expertise would have been necessary to dig into the mountain to build a bunker. The Pamir range is being watched by American spy satellites because of reports a few years ago that bin Laden had constructed a command and control centre in a natural cave system in Kunduz, near Tajikistan. Most of the recent reports have suggested bin Laden has taken refuge inside a deep cave in southern Afghanistan. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] AP: Details Given in Paris Embassy Plot
-Caveat Lector- OCTOBER 02, 16:20 EDT Details Given in Paris Embassy Plot By PIERRE-ANTOINE SOUCHARD PARIS (AP) A French-Algerian man now jailed in France has given authorities a wealth of compelling detail, describing his recruitment at Osama bin Laden's home in Afghanistan for a suicide bombing against the U.S. Embassy in Paris. Djamel Beghal's revelations, made last month in Dubai and described Tuesday by judicial officials, led authorities to arrest a number of other suspects in a broad plot to attack U.S. interests in Europe, the officials said. At a meeting at bin Laden's home in Afghanistan he was told by bin Laden's aide that ``the time has come for action'' and was offered three presents. The gifts were ``on the part of Osama bin Laden,'' according to Europe-1 radio. French anti-terrorism Judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere, in charge of the investigation, opened his probe into the alleged embassy plot on Sept. 10 a day before the catastrophic attacks in New York and Washington. Still unknown is whether the current case has any links to the Sept. 11 attacks. For now, French officials say the cases are separate. Beghal, 35, was placed under formal investigation Monday, a step short of being charged, for alleged links to a terror network, according to French judicial officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity. He had been extradited Sunday from the United Arab Emirates, where he was arrested in late July with a false passport. Bruguiere traveled to Dubai late last month for Beghal's interrogation. Under questioning Sept. 22 and 23, Beghal outlined the plot for the suicide mission against the U.S. Embassy in Paris, to be carried out before March of next year, the judicial officials said. He spoke in great detail about being recruited by Abu Zubaydah, bin Laden's senior aide. The embassy declined to comment on the alleged plot, other than to say: ``This is part of an ongoing investigation by French authorities, in whom we have full confidence.'' Now in Paris, Beghal was questioned again on Monday for 11 hours. Late Tuesday, his lawyer, Fabrice Dubest, told The Associated Press that his client had denied receiving orders to attack the U.S. Embassy. However, officials say they still take very seriously the account that Beghal gave in Dubai. ``At his new hearing on Monday,'' one said, ``Beghal didn't give the precise target, but he never denied that there would be attacks.'' According to the plan, another man Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisian who was arrested Sept. 13 in Belgium was to penetrate the embassy, strapped with explosives. Also, a minivan packed with explosives was to explode outside the cultural section. Beghal said he had signed a ``pact'' with Abu Zubaydah in March in Afghanistan, where he spent month at a training camp run by al-Qaida, bin Laden's organization. Bin Laden was apparently not present at the meeting, Beghal told investigators, but he said al-Qaida had deposited money for the operation in a Moroccan bank account. Beghal said his job in the plot was to gather information and study the embassy's security plans. Officials said he told investigators in Dubai that he has now ``renounced the cause'' of bin Laden. ``It is not true religion. I was deceived.'' Beghal was the second person extradited to France in two days in connection with the plot against U.S. interests. Kamel Daoudi, 27, also a French-Algerian, was extradited from Britain on Saturday. Radio reports have said the two were related. Authorities have tied Beghal to others arrested in the Netherlands, where four people have been arrested, and in Belgium, where two arrests were made, one of them Trabelsi. In addition, six Algerians were arrested in Spain last week and ordered held without bail, stemming from Belgium's arrest of Trabelsi, Spanish officials said. In Rome Tuesday, the U.S. Embassy there warned that ``symbols of American capitalism'' in Italy may be targeted for attack in the next month but provided no details. Elsewhere in Europe, details relating to the investigation continued to emerge. Authorities in Switzerland said that Mohamed Atta, believed by the United States to have been a leader of the hijacking teams in the terror attacks, spent several hours in Zurich on his way from Miami to Madrid in July. In Russia, a senior aide to President Vladimir Putin said at least four of the hijackers had trained in the breakaway republic of Chechnya. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters
[CTRL] News.com: U.S.: Give us your air space
-Caveat Lector- http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,2989300%255E15574,00.html U.S,: Give us your air space 05oct01 AMERICA asked NATO yesterday for unlimited access to allies' airspace as preparations built up for an expected strike on Afghanistan. It wants the allies to give carte blanche to fly through their airspace as well as for the use of air bases in Europe and NATO fuel pipelines. NATO sources said it was the first time the United States had asked to use the alliance's Cold War-era network of aviation fuel pipelines since the 1991 Gulf War. In another military move, the US Army put 1000 troops from the 10th Mountain Division in New York state on alert for possible movement to Central Asia to join a build-up of US forces near Afghanistan. And in other developments: PRESIDENT George W. Bush unveiled a $A150 billion cash injection to try and save the ailing American economy from recession. NEW York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said he will not press for a third term but repeated his offer to stay on for an extra three months to help repair the city. THE FBI said the hero passengers on the hijacked jet that crashed into a Pennsylvania field had engaged in a fight for their lives. The possibility of conflict has made the world edgy, and the US and French governments announced measures to build defences against biological attacks. Wall Street relaxed somewhat as shares leapt at the close after Mr Bush unveiled the rescue package for the economy. Mr Bush's bid to soothe economic nerves came after a warning by attorney-general John Ashcroft that any strike by the US military, built up around Afghanistan in a hunt for the prime suspect in the attacks, Osama bin Laden, could provoke reprisals at home. The time window for US-led military action in Afghanistan is narrowing and several indicators point to a possible strike from early next week, experts said. US officials are still requesting help from partners as diverse as Saudi Arabia, Russia, NATO and Uzbekistan but a host of factors, including politicians' travel plans, the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, public opinion, the weather and Muslim holidays all point to a short window of opportunity for action between October 8 and mid-November. Mr Bush's final decision will depend on whether Washington has vital intelligence on the location of bin Laden and his al Qaeda bases. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he had an inkling of bin Laden's whereabouts, but not an exact location. Mr Rumsfeld landed in Saudi Arabia yesterday and British Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to arrive in Pakistan today, the only country still recognising the Taliban. Pakistan has sided with the US, helping to further cement Mr Bush's coalition against terrorism. The Taliban appear to have gained some breathing space as it is unlikely Washington will launch a campaign with Mr Blair and Mr Rumsfeld in the region. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Bin Laden Seeks Instability In Mideast, Ex-Agent Says
into Egypt using 50 camels that were bought in a village near Khartoum in the Sudan. King Hussein of Jordan often complained to U.S. intelligence that bin Laden money was flowing into his country. In his testimony, Fadl confirmed that the al Qaeda members worked inside Palestine and Jordan. In 1993, Fadl was sent to Jordan to give $100,000 in $100 bills to a man named Abu Akram Urdani, an apparent pseudonym, since Urdani meant Jordan. The money was hidden in Fadl's bag with clothes. When he arrived at the international airport in Jordan, Fadl was met at the customs counter by Abu Akram Urdani, who arranged with the inspector not to search Fadl's bag. Fadl also participated in sending arms and explosives to Yemen, to support the Jannubi group, to fight the communists. Fadl said the weapons moved with Sudanese government complicity. Four crates of weapons and explosives were taken from a hangar maintained at an al Qaeda farm in Sudan and carried by truck to Port Sudan on the Red Sea. There, a Sudanese army intelligence officer helped transfer the crates to an army truck. At midnight, the truck was taken to an al Qaeda boat docked in the Sudanese army section of the port. Saudi Arabia was a main target of bin Laden. According to Fadl, bin Laden established a London office only for al Qaeda members from Saudi Arabia. Fadl also testified that he believed that part of the shipment sent to Yemen was for use against foreign army and American army in east Saudi Arabia. Fadl described a planned meeting with a Saudi member of al Qaeda in Budapest at an al Qaeda guesthouse run by Abdallah Izzeldine. Fadl was carrying $7,000 in cash and a message, but was jailed before the meeting because he lacked a visa. Libya, whose leader, Moammar Gaddafi, has supported terrorist groups, is at the same time a target of al Qaeda-supported groups, according to Fadl. Members of al Qaeda were also part of the Libyan Fighting Group, which aimed to install a pure Islamic government. One of the Libyans with al Qaeda, according to Fadl, worked in Pakistan obtaining passports and travel documents for the group. The son of a Sudanese businessman, Fadl originally came to the United States in 1986, where he became involved with Islamic fundamentalism at a mosque in Brooklyn. He went to Afghanistan in 1988 to fight Soviet forces. A year later, he was one of the founding members of al Qaeda, and worked his way up the business side, running several companies. In 1994, he embezzled $100,000 and was forced out of the organization. Two years later, he told his story to U.S. agents. Fadl has pleaded guilty to providing arms that were to be used against U.S. forces, a crime that could get him 15 years in prison. But his sentence could be reduced depending on his cooperation. He is in the witness protection program, at a cost to the government of more than $725,000 through February. © 2001 The Washington Post Company Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Ruddy: More CIA Revelations - Political Correctness Kills
want to fly on an airline that armed the stewardesses with stun guns? In the wake of Sept. 11, can t we see the danger of political correctness and how it has crippled this great nation? Aren't our potential enemies, bigger than Osama and with weapons capable of destroying every major city in America, watching carefully our response to Sept. 11? Do you believe our enemies have been encouraged or discouraged that the government, the media and the victimized airline stewardesses don't want to arm pilots even after living through Sept. 11? If you dig a bit deeper, you will realize how P.C. thinking and its commissars got us into the mess of Sept. 11 and what troubles lie ahead. America must break its P.C. chains soon to ensure that the barbarians don't destroy us. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] CT: Often abused, laws called `poisonous' [Secret evidence bill raises concerns]
classified evidence sparingly, Bergeron said. And without providing a number, he said there have been some cases in which such evidence helped remove someone who posed a threat. But immigration lawyers say most, if not all, of the immigrants who have launched serious challenges to such evidence have prevailed in the courts. In some cases the government has been pressured into disclosing its grounds for detaining a suspected terrorist, only to reveal flimsy evidence. Egyptian Nasser Ahmed, who is married and the father of three young children, spent more than three years in a federal jail in New York, much of the time in solitary confinement, after he was accused of being a danger to U.S. security. Abdeen Jabara, one of Ahmed's lawyers, said: He was just locked up and [the government] said, `We can't tell you why.' How can a lawyer be a lawyer if he can't find out the evidence? Under pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union, the government declassified much of its evidence, which Ahmed's attorneys then debunked. In 1999 an immigration judge ordered Ahmed's release. The judge rejected the INS allegations point by point, saying, for example, that the government had failed to properly distinguish al-Gama'a al Islamiyya, an alleged terrorist organization, from al-Gama' at al Islamiyya, a collection of hundreds of groups that include social welfare, health and community organizations. Federal agents also have faced criticism in other immigration cases for improperly translating interviews and documents, or for failing to find their way in what Woolsey has called the wilderness of mirrors that is the Middle East. Testifying before a Senate subcommittee in 1998, Woolsey decried the government's appalling incompetence in deportation cases, describing federal employees who confuse Iran and Iraq, and an FBI agent who apparently could not tell a Kurd from a ziggurat. Another critic of the secret-evidence provision is Philip Wilcox, former director of the U.S. State Department's counterterrorism office. It was certainly an infringement on the traditional right to cross-examination, Wilcox said. As an anti-terrorism tool, he said, it hasn't been terribly important. Wilcox said he was unaware of anyone who was released after being held on secret evidence and subsequently carried out acts of terrorism. Violating due process Attorneys representing sus-pected terrorists have chal-lenged the constitutional-ity of the 1996 laws and their authorization of secret evi-dence. In individual cases, federal judges in New Jersey, Florida and California have ruled that such evidence violated due process. The U.S. Supreme Court has not directly addressed the secret-evidence provisions of the 1996 laws, but did uphold the use of classified evidence in opinions handed down in the 1950s. By sanctioning the use of secret evidence against suspect-ed terrorists, the two 1996 laws resurrected a practice that goes back more than a half century. Federal officials used classified evidence in the 1940s to exclude or deport would-be immigrants, but in the '80s the practice came under increasing scrutiny and began to disappear. From the outset, such evidence proved problematic. Ellen Knauff, a German national, was stopped at Ellis Island in 1948 and detained for three years based upon classified evidence suggesting she was a threat to national security. When Congress demanded to know why Knauff was being held, the government's evidence turned out to be little more than a false rumor started by a former lover of Knauff's husband. The more recent case of Hany Kiareldeen, a Palestinian who faced deportation, developed along similar lines. A federal judge ordered hisrelease in 1999 after 19 months in jail, saying secret evidence violated due process and was uncorrobo-rated. Kiareldeen suspected that the accusations against him originated with his former wife, and he produced evidence that he had been arrested about six times based upon false accusations of domestic violence that she had made against him. In one of last year's presidential debates, Bush condemned the use of secret evidence. And in the past year and a half, removal proceedings involving such evidence have all but disappeared. But Cole of Georgetown said he expects to see many immigrants detained on secret evidence. As with so many things, Cole said, Sept. 11 has changed the whole field. Copyright 2001, Chicago Tribune Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid
[CTRL] MoscowTimes: Russian Mafia Aids Al-Qaida
-Caveat Lector- http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2001/09/28/013.html Friday, Sep. 28, 2001. Page 3 Report: Russian Mafia Aids Al-Qaida The Moscow Times U.S. intelligence agencies have uncovered information that Russian criminal groups have been supplying Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida terrorist network with components for chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, The Washington Times reported. The Foreign Ministry called the report an attempt to undermine relations between the U.S. and Russia at a time of increased cooperation. The Washington Times, citing U.S. officials speaking on condition of anonymity, reported Wednesday that bin Laden is believed by U.S. intelligence to have a secret nuclear weapons laboratory inside Afghanistan. This is believed to be one of the sites sought for U.S. military strikes, the newspaper said. There is no hard evidence that bin Laden or his followers have actually produced chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. But bin Laden has worked with Russian mafia groups in obtaining components for weapons of mass destruction, according to officials familiar with the intelligence reports. The U.S. State Department's latest report on international terrorism says that al-Qaida continued to seek chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear capabilities, the newspaper said. Intelligence officials say al-Qaida probably is trying to produce the nerve agent Sarin or biological weapons made up of anthrax spores. A former State Department counterterrorism official, Larry Johnson, said the contacts between the mafia and bin Laden could be related to drug trafficking and such cooperation would not be surprising, the newspaper said. The Foreign Ministry said Thursday that the report raises a question: Why should such information be splashed out on newspaper pages instead of discussing it through the channels existing between our countries, including confidential ones? One may get the impression that some in the United States oppose the positive tendency in Russian-American relations that has made itself felt recently, the ministry said in a statement carried by Interfax. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NandNews: Former Colombia official found slain
-Caveat Lector- Former Colombia official found slain Copyright APonline By JARED KOTLER, Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (September 30, 2001 11:21 a.m. EDT ) - The body of a popular former minister who was allegedly kidnapped by leftist guerrillas a week ago was found near a northern town, family members said Sunday, in a death that could jeopardize Colombia's fragile peace process. Former Culture Minister Consuelo Araujo, the wife of Colombia's inspector-general and a friend of Nobel literature laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, was shot to death and her body found near Valledupar, said family members, who asked not to be identified for security reasons. President Andres Pastrana called the family to let them know the 62-year-old Araujo was dead, they said. The killing of the high-profile figure threatened peace talks that Pastrana initiated nearly three years ago with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, the strongest of Colombia's rebel armies. The talks have produced few results and the rebels have been accused of abuses, including kidnappings, extortion, murder and drug trafficking, generating strong pressure for Pastrana to abandon the negotiations. Araujo was a popular figure. She had organized Colombia's main music festival, which is held in Valledupar. Authorities and witnesses said the FARC kidnapped Araujo and 10 other people at a roadblock on a rural road outside Valledupar, about 420 miles north of Bogota, on Sept. 24. Most of the others had been freed. Security forces had been trying to find her since then in the mountainous region near the Caribbean coast. She was Pastrana's culture minister and the wife of Edgardo Maya, Colombia's inspector-general, a watchdog agency in charge of investigating government officials. On Saturday, FARC fighters wielding AK-47s and submachine guns blocked a peaceful caravan from entering a rebel-held demilitarized zone , forcing leading presidential candidate Horacio Serpa to call off a demonstration aimed at demanding rebel peace concessions. Pastrana called the rebel blockade of the convoy a blow to the peace process and said he had instructed his peace envoy to seek an immediate meeting with the FARC. Pastrana was to have gone on Sunday to the Switzerland-sized demilitarized zone he granted the FARC three years ago as a pre-condition for peace talks, but canceled the trip late Saturday. With its attitude, the FARC is putting in doubt its word and its desire for peace, said Pastrana, before the announcement of the discovery of Araujo's body. The caravan was heading to San Vicente, the main town inside the FARC's southern stronghold, where Serpa had planned to deliver a speech. FARC chief Manuel Marulanda had accused Serpa of using the march to gain votes in the next year's presidential election, which is shaping up as a referendum on a peace process that many Colombians have grown disillusioned with. News Copyright © 2001 Interest!ALERT All rights reserved. Copyright © 1996-2000 Nando Interest!ALERT Inc. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NewsWeek: Two Saudi-Funded Charities Used By bin Laden to Finance His Operations Were Left Off the U.S. Sanctions List to Avoid Embarrassing the Saudis
-Caveat Lector- http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010930/nysu003a_1.html Sunday September 30, 11:14 am Eastern Time Press Release SOURCE: Newsweek Two Saudi-Funded Charities Used By bin Laden to Finance His Operations Were Left Off the U.S. Sanctions List to Avoid Embarrassing the Saudis Bush Strategists Now See Few Afghan Targets for Long-Range Bombing; Blasting Pickup Trucks Mounted With Machine Guns, Rocket Launchers 'Like Trying to Hit Pony Express' NEW YORK, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Although two inter-related global charities directly financed by the Saudi government -- the International Islamic Relief Organization and the Muslim World League -- have been used by terrorist leader Osama bin Laden to finance his operations, both organizations were left off the list of groups sanctioned by the U.S. last week, intelligence officials tell Newsweek, in order to avoid embarrassing the Saudi government. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20010929/HSSA004 ) Another organization dropped from the list despite being known as a bin Laden front was the Rabita Trust for the Rehabilitation of Stranded Pakistanis, with the president of Pakistan, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, on its board. Intelligence officials tell Newsweek that Washington gave Musharraf 36 hours to quit, but when he didn't, the Rabita Trust was quietly dropped from the list, reports Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas in the October 8 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, October 1). In a separate article, Foreign Editor Michael Hirsh and National Security Correspondent John Barry report that the U.S. will aggressively send in special forces in Afghanistan, perhaps Navy SEALs or Green Berets, hoping to grab bin Laden as he runs and to seize the computer disks that presumably contain the secrets to his global network. Sources tell Newsweek that the Bush administration originally leaned toward a long-range bombing attack on Afghanistan, but has come to realize that the country has even fewer targets than the hard-to-hit tanks in Kosovo. The terrorist camps have emptied; the only good military targets, apart from a few TV and radar stations, militia headquarters and fuel dumps, are the Taliban's ``cavalry'' of pickup trucks mounted with machine guns and rocket launchers. Going after those, says a senior Defense official, would be ``like trying to hit the Pony Express,'' Newsweek reports. (Read Newsweek's news releases at http://www.Newsweek.MSNBC.com. Click Pressroom.) Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The United States and the Iraqi National Congress
soon. 'The rebellion is strengthening Saddam, not weakening him . . . No military is going to overthrow him while they are fighting a rebellion.' Similarly, The New York Times, 21 March 1991, wrote: 'It is important to stabilize the situation in Iraq,' said Christine Moss Helms, an Iraq scholar who has advised the White House and Pentagon during the Persian Gulf crisis. 'Until the situation is stabilized nobody is going to be able to focus on getting rid of Saddam Hussein.' 5 Laurie Mylroie, Iraq's Real Coup, The Washington Post, 28 June 1992. 6 Paul Wolfowitz, The United States and Iraq, in John Calabrese (ed.), The Future of Iraq (Washington DC: Middle East Institute, 1997), p. 108. 7 The Chalabis were a wealthy Shi'ite family who served as ministers in Iraqi governments under the Hashemite monarchy. When the monarchy was overthrown in 1958, the family left Iraq. Chalabi himself studied at MIT and the University of Chicago, where he received a Ph.D. in mathematics. In the 1980's, Chalabi ran a bank in Jordan. In the summer of 1989, the Jordanian government took over his bank by military decree and then charged him with irregularities, and he left Jordan. The charges were never pursued outside Jordan, almost certainly because they would not survive public scrutiny. The Jordanian government was closely aligned with Baghdad and Saddam was already planning for the possibility of invading Kuwait. Jordan was critical as a financial conduit for Iraq during the Gulf War. Saddam wanted Chalabi gone, in this author's view, because if he had remained in Jordan, he would have blown the whistle on Amman's extensive coordination with Baghdad in the financial arena during the coming confrontation. 8 For this episode and the Clinton administration's handling of UNSCOM more generally, see Laurie Mylroie, Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein's Unfinished War Against America (Washington DC: American Enterprise Institute Press, 2000), pps. 150 ff. 9 Gen. Najib Salhi, interview with Iraq News, 9 November 1999. 10 It might be noted that the CIA provided large sums of money to the Palestinian Authority, including for the support of the Palestinian Preventive Security Department, which was not a covert operation either. 11 Statement by the President, The Oval Office, 3 September 1996. 12 Once again, the majority of the policy-oriented Iraq experts behaved abysmally. See Laurie Mylroie, U.S. Policy Toward Iraq, Middle East Intelligence Bulletin, January 2001. For example, Amatzia Baram, a frequent visitor to Washington, wrote a piece purporting to explain why Saddam had attacked Irbil. Baram did not even mention that the Iraqi assault was an attack on the INC. He found many other explanations and suggested that in the first place, Saddam's move northward was to provide his most loyal troops -the Republican Guards - an opportunity for an easy military victory against a poorly armed Kurdish militia. Amatzia Baram, Saddam Husayn Conquers Irbil: Causes and Implications, Policy Watch, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 4 September 1996. c) 2001 Middle East Intelligence Bulletin. All rights reserved. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] INC DOCUMENTS SADDAM HUSSEIN'S LINKS WITH INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
-Caveat Lector- http://209.50.252.70/p_en/inc/index.shtml 09/26/2001 IN DOCUMENTS SADDAM HUSSEIN'S LINKS WITH INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM INC CALLS FOR REMOVAL OF SADDAM AS PART OF ANTI-TERROR STRATEGY WASHINGTON, DC (24 September 2001): The Iraqi National Congress has documented links between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden s international terror network. In early 1999 the INC reported that Farouk Hijazi, a senior Iraqi intelligence official, traveled to Kandahar Afghanistan to meet bin Laden personally. This meeting took place in December 1998. Hijazi was accompanied by a group of Iraqi intelligence officers. Hijazi is currently Iraqi ambassador in Turkey; he previously served as head of the foreign covert operations division of the Iraqi Intelligence Service (Mukhabarat). The Iraqi Mukhabarat has been involved in numerous terrorist actions in the Middle East and Europe since Saddam Hussein s regime came to power in 1979. The INC has also learned that one of the terrorists involved in the September 11th atrocity, Mohammed Atta, met an Iraqi intelligence official in Prague earlier this year. The Iraqi official, who is known to be a close associate of Hijazi, was posing as a diplomat at the Iraqi embassy in the Czech Republic. It is well known that the Iraqi Mukhabarat uses diplomatic cover as a means to move personnel and money into foreign countries. Saddam s history of terrorism and his continuing efforts to develop nuclear, biological and chemical weapons make him a threat to the peace and stability of the entire world. Any comprehensive strategy to fight terrorism must include the removal of Saddam s regime as a major element. Contact: INC Washington (202) 548-3590 Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] TOI: India warns Pak: Our patience is limited
-Caveat Lector- http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=1145663514 India warns Pak: Our patience is limited CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA TIMES NEWS NETWORK ASHINGTON: Conveying India's anguish and outrage about the latest terrorist attack in Kashmir to the United States in very strong terms, Prime Minister Vajpayee on Monday cautioned Pakistan that there is a limit to the patience of the people of India. The warning is contained in an extraordinary letter the Prime Minister has written to President George Bush that was delivered on Monday afternoon by external affairs minister Jaswant Singh personally to the US President. The tone of the letter is so grave that Bush himself dropped in during a 75-minute meeting Singh had at the White House with National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice at the White House. The US President stayed for 40 minutes discussing the latest developments relating to terrorism with Singh. Emerging grim-faced from the meeting, Singh said he had a very candid and productive discussion which left him with no doubt that the United States would address the issue of terrorism everywhere and not just that which affected America. In his letter to President Bush, Prime Minister Vajpayee minced no words in directly blaming Pakistan for the latest massacre in the Kashmir Assembly. There has been understandable anger in the country at this wanton act of violence. Incidents of this kind raise questions for our security which, as a democratically elected leader of India, I have to address in our supreme national interest, Vajpayee wrote. Pakistan must understand that there is a limit to the patience of the people of India, he added. By emphasising his position as the elected leader of India and pointing out that the terrorists had attacked the state parliament, Vajpayee appeared to make clear his misgivings about Washington allying itself so readily with the military ruler of Pakistan. The Prime Minister said that a Pakistan-based organisation, Jaish-e Mohamed, had claimed responsibility for the attack and had even named a Pakistani national based in Pakistan as one of the suicide bombers involved. Yet the President of Pakistan was telling the world through television interviews that Pakistan has no terrorist groups operating from its territory. Following Vajpayee's letter, which he ended by saying he had asked his external affairs Minister to convey to you more fully our sentiments in this regard, Jaswant Singh is understood to have told the administration about the rising public anger at home at the wanton acts of terrorism being promoted by a state that has been patently militaristic towards India. Despite the grave atmosphere that surrounded the meeting, Indian officials said they found the US fully understanding about New Delhi's concerns. Vajpayee in fact prefaced what was virtually a warning to Pakistan conveyed through the United States. That India understood Washington discharging your core responsibility for the interest and security of the American people. But India has its own concerns that could not be ignored. We are with you and do not wish to overload the agenda in any way. However, incidents of this kind raise questions for our security, Vajpayee wrote. In effect, New Delhi appears to be preparing ground for retaliating against Pakistan-sponsored terrorism, particularly since the United Nations too has signaled that it expects all member countries to crack down on terrorism from its home soil or face action. Jaswant Singh in fact gave some hint of what could be in store by saying that terrorism directed against India was India's own problem and it would handle it itself. India's strong response came on a day when the US media revealed that the money trail associated with the terrorist attack on America led to Pakistan. A delegation of US Congressmen also blamed Pakistan for terrorists attacks on Americans. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector
[CTRL] LI: 'Bunker buster' to smoke out Bin Laden
-Caveat Lector- From: The Independent http://www.iol.co.za/ 'Bunker buster' to smoke out Bin Laden October 01 2001 at 09:39AM http://www.iol.co.za/html/frame_news.php?click_id=24art_id=ct2001100109390 4850S563760 London - A new type of smart missile capable of finding hidden caves from a distance of 1 600km and detonating inside may offer the West the crucial tool it needs in its war against Osama bin Laden. The United States Defence Department's bunker-buster is the latest version of a bomb that was hastily developed at the start of the Gulf War with the aim of penetrating the thick concrete bunkers used by Saddam Hussein. Guided by lasers and with a payload of 285kg of high explosive, the GBU-28 was one of the few pieces of allied ordnance - short of a nuclear warhead - able to penetrate Saddam's heavily armoured subterranean hideouts. But Bob Sherman, of the Federation of American Scientists, a think-tank that monitors weapons development, warned that no amount of satellite-guided accuracy would necessarily deliver the kind of knockout blow the West craves. It depends how deep in the caves these people are, he said. If they are at the end of a long system, these bombs may be less effective. But if you can get a bomb into the entrance of a cave, the walls will contain the explosion and the lethal effect will carry deeply. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] AWST: Afghanistan Crash Reveals U.S. Intel Operation
no flare-rejection capability. The more advanced SA-16/18s cost $60,000-80,000 and have improved sensing. The SA-18 has improved target discrimination and an altitude of at least 14,000 ft. A logic unit in the missile moves the aimpoint, at the last moment, from the tailpipe to the cockpit and center fuselage area. In an ominous turn of events, triggered by the success of U.S. aircraft in striking radars and radar-guided missiles, foreign manufacturers are modifying their heavy SAM systems with electro-optical and infrared sensors to avoid detection. While infrared missiles have been the most effective antiaircraft weapons over the last decade, there are improvements being made to defenses against them. They now involve more than the traditional dispersal of flares. Sweden, for example, has developed a covert flare that because of its low temperature is not visible to the unaided eye. It operates at the same temperature as the dispensing aircraft so that imaging seeker heads on missiles have difficulty telling the plume from the aircraft. Moreover, several countries are using lasers to fool laser-guided weapons and jam IR seekers. In some cases, it can be powerful enough to overload sensors and damage detectors or frost optics on the incoming missile. IN THE U.S., Lockheed Martin and the Air Force Research Laboratoryhave tested the laser infrared countermeasure flyout experiment (Life). It uses a multiband laser to identify an approaching weapon by the sensor it carries. It assesses characteristics of the missile and then returns a complex synchronized jam code. This response causes the missile to make a high-g turn away from the target aircraft in order to chase a cluster of false targets. If it can drive the missile in one direction, the total time to jam could be as little as 3-4 sec., a necessity when aircraft are at low altitude ( AWST May 21, p. 43). Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] LT: I was one of the Taliban's torturers: I crucified people
to fall to the Taliban. Herat had always been a relatively liberal place where women would dance at weddings and many girls went to school - but the Taliban were determined to put an end to all that. Mr Hassani and his men were told to be particularly cruel to Heratis. It was his experience of that cruelty that made Mr Hassani determined to let the world know what was happening in Afghanistan. Maybe the worst thing I saw, he said, was a man beaten so much, such a pulp of skin and blood, that it was impossible to tell whether he had clothes on or not. Every time he fell unconscious, we rubbed salt into his wounds to make him scream. Nowhere else in the world has such barbarity and cruelty as in Afghanistan. At that time I swore an oath that I will devote myself to the Afghan people and telling the world what is happening. Before he could escape, however, because he comes from the same tribe, he spent time as a bodyguard for Mullah Omar, the reclusive spiritual leader of the Taliban. He's medium height, slightly fat, with an artificial green eye which doesn't move, and he would sit on a bed issuing instructions and giving people dollars from a tin trunk, said Mr Hassani. He doesn't say much, which is just as well as he's a very stupid man. He knows only how to write his name `Omar' and sign it. It is the first time in Afghanistan's history that the lower classes are governing and by force. There are no educated people in this administration - they are all totally backward and illiterate. They have no idea of the history of the country and although they call themselves mullahs they have no idea of Islam. Nowhere does it say men must have beards or women cannot be educated; in fact, the Koran says people must seek education. He became convinced that the Taliban were not really in control. We laughed when we heard the Americans asking Mullah Omar to hand over Osama bin Laden, he said. The Americans are crazy. It is Osama bin Laden who can hand over Mullah Omar - not the other way round. While stationed in Kandahar, he often saw bin Laden in a convoy of Toyota Land Cruisers all with darkened windows and festooned with radio antennae. They would whizz through the town, seven or eight cars at a time. His guards were all Arabs and very tall people, or Sudanese with curly hair. He was also on guard once when bin Laden joined Mullah Omar for a bird shoot on his estate. They seemed to get on well, he said. They would go fishing together, too - with hand grenades. The Arabs, according to Mr Hassani, have taken de facto control of his country. All the important places of Kandahar are now under Arab control - the airport, the military courts, the tank command. Twice he attended Taliban training camps and on both occasions they were run by Arabs as well as Pakistanis. The first one I went to lasted 10 days in the Yellow Desert in Helmand province, a place where the Saudi princes used to hunt, so it has its own airport. It was incredibly well guarded and there were many Pakistanis there, both students from religious schools and military instructors. The Taliban is full of Pakistanis. He was told that if he died while fighting under the white flag of the Taliban, he and his family would go to paradise. The soldiers were given blank marriage certificates signed by a mullah and were encouraged to take wives during battle, basically a licence to rape. When Mr Hassani was sent to the front line in Bagram, north of Kabul, a few months ago, he saw a chance to escape. Our line was attacked by the Northern Alliance and they almost defeated us. Many of my friends were killed and we didn't know who was fighting who; there was killing from behind and in front. Our commanders fled in cars leaving us behind. We left, running all night but then came to a line of Arabs who arrested us and took us back to the front line. One night last month I was on watch and saw a truck full of sheep and goats, so I jumped in and escaped. I got back to Kandahar but Taliban spies saw me and I was arrested and interrogated. Luckily I have relatives who are high ranking Taliban members so they helped me get out and eventually I escaped to Quetta to my wife and daughter. I think many in the Taliban would like to escape. The country is starving and joining is the only way to get food and keep your land. Otherwise there is a lot of hatred. I hate both what it does and what it turned me into. © Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 2001. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap
[CTRL] KR: U.S. issues worldwide travel alert. Plots to take Americanhostages warned
of Indonesia has condemned these terrorist attacks, some radical Indonesian groups have attempted to attack U.S. citizens and have threatened to attack U.S. facilities and expel American citizens from Indonesia in the event of a U.S. military action, the advisory said. Americans who despite this warning remain in or visit Indonesia should exercise maximum caution and take prudent measures to maintain their security. The State Department also said the U.S. Embassy in Niger received reports of anti-American threats and sentiments in the capital, Niamey, and the city of Maradi. It said the threats were linked to possible U.S. military action, and it encouraged all Americans in Niger to maintain heightened security. In addition, the department repeated previous warnings about potential threats against U.S. military facilities and other establishments frequented by U.S. servicemen in South Korea and Japan. Nonessential U.S. government employees have been removed from four U.S. diplomatic missions in Pakistan, two in Indonesia and one each in Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Yemen, the State Department said. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] WP: U.S.: No Negotiations With Taliban
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010930/aponline113906_000. h tm U.S.: No Negotiations With Taliban By Ronald Powers Associated Press Writer Sunday, Sept. 30, 2001; 11:39 a.m. EDT WASHINGTON The Taliban said Sunday they have Osama bin Laden under their control, but a conditional offer to negotiate his fate with the United States was quickly rejected by the White House. The president has said we're not negotiating, White House chief of staff Andrew Card said on Fox News Sunday. We've told the Taliban government what they should be doing. They've got to turn not only Osama bin Laden over but all of the operatives of the al-Qaida organization. They've got to stop being a haven where terrorists can train. Meantime, Attorney General John Ashcroft offered a chilling reminder about the threat of more terrorism in this country. We believe there are others who may be in the country who would have plans, Ashcroft said on CBS Face The Nation. There is a very serious threat of additional problems now. Taliban leaders said bin Laden is in a secret location and that they are willing to negotiate with the United States if it provides evidence he was involved in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He's in Afghanistan, said the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, Abdul Salam Zaeef. He is under our control. Wherever he is, he's in a secret place but that doesn't mean that he is out of the control of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. He's in a place which cannot be located by anyone. Zaeef criticized the United States for failing to provide evidence linking bin Laden to the attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon. They have provided no evidence but they want the man, he said. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on NBC's Meet the Press that he questions anything the Taliban says. Well, of course it was just a few days ago that they said they didn't know where he was, he said. So I have no reason to believe anything a Taliban representative would say. President Bush and his top security and intelligence advisers were at Camp David this weekend working on their strategy while White House aides worked on a plan to boost the nation's economy and provide more help to people left jobless by the attacks. In his weekly radio address to the nation Saturday, Bush condemned the Taliban rulers for harboring bin Laden. As America braced for what the president promises to be a long and possibly global battle against terrorism, peace marchers paraded through the streets of Washington and other cities during the weekend, protesting that innocent lives will likely be lost in the retaliation. Signs of that response were taking form as the United States moved more equipment into central Asia and military reservists called to active duty donned their uniforms. The United States respects the people of Afghanistan and we are their largest provider of humanitarian support, Bush said in his broadcast address. But we condemn the Taliban, and welcome the support of other nations in isolating that regime. Economic advisers polished a plan to provide a 13-week extension of unemployment benefits and additional tax cuts. Aides said Bush is working with Democrats to increase the minimum wage. On the investigation front, law enforcers estimated that planning and executing the highly coordinated attacks cost at least $500,000. A law enforcement source, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said federal agents tracked the hijackers' bank accounts, communications and travel tickets as they followed a trail that could lead to a small group of chief plotters in Europe and the Middle East. In another development, the New York police tally of missing at the World Trade Center dropped to 5,641 and the confirmed dead rose to 309. The death toll at the Pentagon remained 189. Forty-four died in the Pennsylvania crash of a hijacked airliner. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector
[CTRL] NYDN: Second-by-Second Terror Revealed in Calls to 911
closures and evacuations of public buildings. 09:13:52 100 FL FC UNABLE TO ID EXACT LOCATION NEEDS HELP 09:14:25 1 PP AND GRACIE MANSION BEEN EVACUATED 09:14:52 FC STS 100 FL---UNABLE TO SPEAK 09:15:34 SEVERAL JUMPERS FROM THE WINDOW AT 1 WORLD TRADE CENTER 09:16:06 HAVE UN BUILDING EVACUATED FORTHWITH 09:16:55 ALL MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS---TO BE EVACUATED 09:17:20 MC STS HE CAN'T GET OUT---1 WORLD TRADE CENTER 09:17:39 MC STS ON 105 FLR...STAIRS COLLAPSE 09:19:16 EMPIRE STATE BUILDING IS BEING EVACUATED 09:19:20 120 PEOPLE TRAPPED ON 106TH FL A LOT OF SMOKE NOT SEEING FIRE...CAN'T GO DOWN OR UP THE STAIRS The screen then reported a desperate scramble to nowhere. 09:19:58 EVACUATION TO THE TOP FLR OF WORLD TRADE CENTER Trapped The calls scrolled on and on. 09:21:31 FC STS THEY ARE IN STAIRWAY C...ON 82ND FLR...STS DRS ARE LOCKED AT LOC...STS NEED SOMEONE TO OPEN DOOR 09:23:05 MC STS HES ON 84 FLR---NUMBER 2 TOWER---CAN'T BREATHE---CALLER DISCONNECTED. 09:23:28 FC STS SHE SAW PERSON IN THE BUILDING. THE PERSON IS WAVING 09:24:54 MC STS STAIRWAY COLLASPE ON 105 FLR 09:25:28 MC...STS TRAPPED IN ROOM ON 103 FLR...STS DOORS ARE HOT 09:27:33 FC DIANA STS HUSBAND FRIEND TONY IS STILL ALIVE ON THE 101 FLR 09:28:42 FC STS SOMEONE WAVING A WHT FLAG 1ST BLDG THAT WAS HIT---10 FLR DOWN FRM THE TOP 09:32:14 2 WORLD TRADE---105 FLR---PEOPLE TRAPPED---OPEN ROOF TO GAIN ACCESS. 09:36:33 FC STS THEY ARE STUCK IN THE ELEVATOR...STS THEY ARE DYING. The screen reported the approach of an airplane. 09:37:35 AIRCRAFT IS MILITARY 09:38:52 MC COSGROVE STS CALLED BEFORE STS HE NEEDS HELP STS CANT FIND STAIRCASE TO GET OUT OF LOC STS PEOPLE NEED HELP ON 105 FLR 09:39:25 MILITARY AIRCRAFT--- ENFORCING NO FLY ZONE 09:40:45 MC STS PEOPLE PASSING OUT 09:42:04 PEOPLE STILL JUMPING OFF THE TOWER 09:39:40 FC MELISSA STS FLR VERY HOT NO DOOR STS SHE'S GOING (TO) DIE...STILL ON PHONE...WANT TO CALL MOTHER More people trapped, more people jumping, and then a first hint of what was to come. 09:47:15 FC STS 2 WORLD TRADE CENTER---FLR 105---STS FLOOR UNDERNEATH HER ---COLLAPSE The screen scrolled on. 09:47:23 ML WAVING JACKET...ML JUST JUMPED 09:49:21 1 WORLD TRADE CTR...20 PEOPLE ON THE TOP WAVING...THEY ARE ALIVE PLEASE SEND HELP 09:54:36 ANOTHER CALL CAN HEAR PEOPLE CRYING...NO VOICE CONTACT Then came another hint. 09:55:28 2 WTC---106 FLR---105 FLR CRUMBLING The screen kept scrolling, mixing calls with official reports. 09:54:21 MC STS ON 93 FLR 30 PEOPLE IN THE ROOM---STS SMOKE IS GETTING WORSE 09:56:22 PENTAGON IN WASHINGTON HAS BEEN STRUCK BY AIRPLANE A Rumbling Roar One woman called from Duane St., saying she had seen the planes hit and noticed white particles that had been falling along with the jumpers. O9:59:03 FC CONCERN ABOUT RESPIRATORY EFFECTS OF THOSE PARTICLES 10:00:22 ANY UNIFORM PERSONNEL TO BATTERY PARK CITY...ELECTION DETAIL UNITS RESPONDING. 10:00:33 MC STS SON CALLED---ON FLR 93---STS IN THE SECOND TOWER THAT WAS HIT---STS SMOKE IS GETTING WORSE Twelve seconds later there was a rumbling roar. 10:00:45 WORLD TRADE CENTER HAS COLLAPSED. All calls from the south tower suddenly ceased with a notation. CALL DISCONNECTED A message came from an EMS unit. 10:07:54 TRAPPED BUILDING FELL ON THEM A police report flashed on the screen. 10:10:31 NUMEROUS (OFFICERS) IN BLDG THAT JUST COLLAPSED--PERSONNEL TRAPPED IN BASEMENT...PEOPLE IN THE RUBBLE The calls from the north tower continued; people trapped, people jumping. 10:12:35 MC STS HE CAN BARELY BREATHE...105TH FLR The sister of a former Xavier High School football star called. 10:16:02 FC STS HER BROTHER IS IN THE WORLD TRADE CENTER 104 FLR---STS NO ONE HAS COME FOR HIM YET Then, came a series of warnings. 10:26:34 DOES APPEAR THAT TOP OF TOWER POSS LEANING AT THIS TIME---AIR SEA #14---IS BUCKLING---LEANING TO SW 10:29:25 NORTH TOWER IS LEANING 10:31:18 N TOWER POSS GETTING READY TO FALL 10:32:56 NORTH TOWER COLLAPSING 10:33:29 SECOND BUILDING CAME DOWN 10:33:42 ENTIRE TOWER DOWN The calls from the second tower ceased with another rumbling roar. Incident No. 0727 ended with reports of the surviving EMS teams aiding the few survivors of what had first flashed on the screen just like a kitchen fire. Original Publication Date: 9/30/01 Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major
[CTRL] DN: German Data Led U.S. to Search for More Hijackers After Attack
, the official said of the planning. It must have been done by certain people who fall through the profiling procedures used by the United States. The investigators do not yet have concrete evidence that Mr. bin Laden was the author of the attack, the official said. But he said he had no doubt that it was the work of Al Qaeda, because it has exclusively chosen the United States as a target. It has a certain handwriting we can see, he said. Teams of F.B.I. investigators have been sent to this city and to a German police unit near Bonn, and their number is now being increased. Today's announcement in England comes a week after Mr. Raissi was arrested under Britain's Terrorism Act. Mr. Raissi was re-arrested under an American warrant today. When he was seized last Friday, Mr. Raissi was living in Colnbrook, close to London's Heathrow Airport. His wife, Sonia, 25, and brother Mohamed, 29, were also detained but later released. Prosecutors said today that he had been charged in the United States with giving false information when he applied for a pilot's license. Mr. Raissi qualified as a pilot in 1997 and attended a number of flight schools that were also attended by some of the hijackers in the Sept. 11 attacks, the prosecutor, Arvinda Sambir, said in court today. We have sufficient evidence to show not just association with the pilots it goes further than that, Ms. Sambir said. We have evidence of active conspiracy proving correspondence and telecommunications with them as well as video footage of them together. We also have proof they traveled together. Ms. Sambir said Mr. Raissi visited the United States on several occasions between June and July of this year and on June 23 flew to Las Vegas with his French-born wife Sonia, 25, who works for Air France at Heathrow. From there, he flew to Arizona with a man described as the pilot of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon, identified by American investigators as Hani Hanjour. We say he was there to ensure that pilots were capable and trained for this purpose, Ms. Sambir said. In Arizona, an arrest warrant has been issued for Mr. Raissi, accusing him of making false statements to the Federal Aviation Administration. Here in Hamburg, investigators are focusing more attention on Mr. Bin al-Shibh, who lived with Mr. Atta and other members of the Hamburg cell at 54 Marienstrasse. The police diagram shows that Mr. Bin al-Shibh transferred 2,000 Deutschmarks, or about $4,200, through Citibank to the West Coast Bank in Florida as a down payment at the same flight school attended by Mr. Jarrah. Another person whose name is on the diagram is Mamoun Darkazanli, 43, a Syrian businessman with a German wife who worked as a wholesale dealer in office equipment. Mr. Darkazanli was on the list of 27 individuals and organizations that the Bush administration released last week alleging that they had channeled money to Al Qaeda. American officials said Mr. Darkazanli was an associate of Mr. Bin Laden and took part in a 1996 attack on government troops in Saudi Arabia. He came to the attention of the German and American authorities in late 1998 as part of the investigation into the African embassy bombings. Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, a Sudanese, whom American officials describe as a right-hand man to Mr. bin Laden, named Mr. Darkazanli during his interrogation by the German police after he was arrested near Munich in 1998. Mr. Salim is currently in jail in New York, awaiting trial on terrorism charges. When Mr. Salim opened a bank account at the Deutsche Bank in Hamburg, he named Mr. Darkazanli as a co-signer. According to German investigators, Mr. Darkazanli attended the wedding several years ago of Said Bahaji, a German of Moroccan origin. Mr. Bahaji was in charge of logistics for the Hamburg cell, and last week, the German authorities issued a warrant for his arrest. Eight days before the bombings, he left Germany for Pakistan, German officials have said. Others at the wedding were Mr. Atta, Mr. Shehhi and Mohamed Heidar Zammar, whose name also appears on the police diagram. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives
[CTRL] Observer: Troops will target drugs stockpile
-Caveat Lector- http://www.observer.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,1373,560700,00.html Troops will target drugs stockpile Downing Street fears the Taliban will flood the West with £20 billion worth of heroin Kamal Ahmed, political editor Sunday September 30, 2001 The Observer American and British troops are to target a £20 billion stockpile of opium and heroin which intelligence officials believe is about to be released onto the world market by Osama bin Laden and the Taliban authorities. Intelligence documents circulating in Downing Street say that bin Laden and the Taliban will use money made from the trade to fund any war against the West. It is believed that there are up to 3,000 tonnes of opium in secret bunkers across the north and west of Afghanistan. Such a large amount could be used to manufacture up to 300 tonnes of heroin, enough to supply the British drugs trade for 10 years. Downing Street officials believe that bin Laden and his al Qaeda organisation are closely connected to a string of drug gangs which use supply routes through Iran and Turkey into Europe and America. Nearly 90 per cent of the heroin sold in Britain is thought to come from Afghanistan. Although refusing to go into specifics, Government sources said that the destruction of the drugs trade was a 'long-held ambition' and that they would be flexible in making it part of the 'war against terrorism'. 'We want to see an end to opium production in Afghanistan,' the Prime Minister's official spokesman said. It is believed that troops will focus on areas where the drugs are thought to be stored around Jalalabad and the bin Laden camps of Darunta, Bhesud and Khost. They will move against chemical factories which process the drugs and farms which grow poppies as part of the military operation. Security sources said that all of these could also be targeted in a series of air strikes when the military campaign, Operation Enduring Freedom, is launched against the country. Last week it was reported that the Taliban had lifted their ban on the planting of poppy fields, so that the manufacture of opium and heroin could begin again. This is the first evidence that bin Laden and the Taliban authorities already have a major stockpile of drugs. 'Assessments suggest that those stocks are now being disposed of because of the threat of war and the need to raise money,' the Prime Minister's official spokesman said. 'Bin Laden has been closely involved in the Afghan drugs trade and has encouraged major traffickers in the past to flood Europe and the US with heroin as a means of undermining and destabilising. There are strong grounds for believing that [he has] large stockpiles of drugs himself. 'The Taliban in the past have used money from drugs to fund military action. Bin Laden is actively involved in the Afghan drugs trade and sees these drugs as a means of undermining the West.' Although the Afghan border with Iran is officially closed there are a myriad of routes between the two countries which are almost impossible to close down. Britain has now agreed to help Iran, a long-time political enemy, in the fight against drugs. During his visit to the country last week Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, announced that the Government would give a £650,000 grant to President Mohamed Khatami to help in counter-trafficking measures. Downing Street played down fears that the release of such a huge amount of heroin by the Taliban would flood the Western market with cheap heroin. 'Street prices of heroin in Britain are unlikely to be affected,' the spokesman said. 'The price didn't alter during the ban. We don't expect there to be a flood of cheap heroin now.' He said that government policies were in place to stop the drugs entering Britain. Under questioning, the official spokesman said that he could not divulge any evidence which the Government had about the drugs. 'We cannot reveal our sources but it is reliable evidence gained over many years.' Diplomatic sources said that an attack on the heroin trade in Afghanistan held political difficulties for the Government. Officials admit that up to five per cent of the heroin held in the country was under the control of the Northern Alliance which America hopes will back any future military action. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major
[CTRL] CDI: What If The Terrorists Go Nuclear?
hoping to register the tell-tale signals of a hidden bomb. Once found, the bomb is x-rayed, sniffed and otherwise analyzed to determine its characteristics. Obviously, intelligence that helps localize the bomb is the main key to success. Just as obviously, intelligence of such quality is seldom available - as proven on Sept. 11. Such a search could be truly looking for a needle in a haystack, as detection normally would succeed only if the detectors come within a few feet or so of the hidden bomb. Disabling a bomb is easy by comparison. A radiological bomb might be surrounded by a tent enclosure several tens of feet in height and width, then filled with a special foam to contain the deadly radioactive material (such as Cesium 137) if the bomb explodes during further defusing attempts. For a nuclear device, a set of options for disabling the weapon are available including using explosives to wreck the bomb's wiring to prevent the triggering of the nuclear detonators. Because of the difficulty inherent in finding a nuclear weapon once it entered the country, near-term U.S. response efforts would be best focused on prevention and intervention to secure possible sources of nuclear terrorism. By Dr. Bruce G. Blair CDI President [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] LT: Hotel clue points to an Iraqi connection
-Caveat Lector- http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/09/30/stiusausa02023.html Bin Laden is said to have visited Baghdad's Al-Rashid hotel, above, which has a mosaic of George Bush, where he chatted with the business partner of warlord Arkan EMBASSY BOMBINGS Hotel clue points to an Iraqi connection Tom Walker A CHANCE encounter in a Baghdad hotel may have provided a clue for investigators trying to establish whether Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi dictator, was in contact with Osama Bin Laden in the months before the suicide bomb attacks on American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam three years ago. Giovanni Di Stefano, a controversial lawyer who was the business partner of the late Serbian warlord Arkan, has described how he met Bin Laden - now the world's most wanted man but then a relatively unknown figure - in the lobby of the five-star Al-Rashid hotel while negotiating a contract to represent Iraqi Airlines in Yugoslavia and Italy. If true, his account could strengthen the view of Washington hawks that Iraq had a hand in the embassy bombings and the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and that Saddam's regime should be targeted for retaliation. However, Di Stefano's claim has divided intelligence sources and academics: some say Bin Laden was plotting strikes against American targets with Saddam, while others insist he would not have been welcome in Iraq. Di Stefano said that in March 1998 - five months before the embassy bombings - he entered the state-run hotel with Tariq Aziz, the Iraqi foreign minister, and was sitting in the lobby with a business associate. Richard Butler, the chief United Nations weapons inspector, had just walked past when they overheard someone sitting nearby say: That is a man who brings death to this country. Di Stefano said he looked over and saw a slightly built man sipping Evian water. I said we also had our victims to cry over in Yugoslavia, Di Stefano recalled. He walked over, and I remember his piercing eyes and handshake. His skin was gentle and soft, like a woman's hand. The two men made polite conversation, and the stranger introduced himself as Osama Bin Laden, a name that meant nothing to Di Stefano at the time. He seemed kind: he talked about a family feast for his children and asked me about law, Di Stefano said. He seemed a gentle man, although his eye movements were a little strange. It was only on his return to Belgrade in late March that Di Stefano realised whose hand he had fleetingly grasped. Arkan told me I should have killed him, he said. Laurie Mylroie, the author of Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein's Unfinished War against America, which highlights a series of links with Bin Laden, said the lawyer's story was plausible. Bin Laden's not capable of doing this stuff without foreign intelligence, and that comes from Iraq. He can't do it wasting away in the Hindu Kush, she said. It all fits in. It's circumstantial, but there are strong grounds to believe the plot was already under way. Although hawks in the Bush administration suspect that Iraq was involved in the jet attacks, Colin Powell, the secretary of state, has resisted calls for air strikes against Baghdad. The Americans have only ever hinted at Iraq giving material support for Bin Laden, but they have never produced the evidence, said Professor Paul Wilkinson, of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at St Andrews University. It's quite possible Bin Laden was in Iraq. There are differences between them but that doesn't mean you can exclude contact when they both hate America so much. Peter Bergen, whose biography of Bin Laden is to be published shortly, said Di Stefano's supposed sighting failed every common sense test. He believes ideological conflicts between Bin Laden and Saddam would prevent them conspiring together. The relationship between Butler, who arrived in Baghdad on March 22 1998, and the Iraqi regime deteriorated. The Iraqis repeatedly denounced America, although they have always denied any links to Bin Laden. On August 4 Butler cut short a visit to Baghdad, and three days later explosions at the American embassies in the Kenyan and Tanzanian cities claimed 224 lives. Bin Laden has been indicted by Washington for the attacks. Di Stefano has maintained his contacts with Saddam's regime, but says has no idea why Bin Laden should have been in the Al-Rashid in 1998. I don't know and I won't speculate, he said. Next page: Mercenaries chase £20m prize for head of Bin Laden http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/09/30/stiusausa02022.html ? Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org
[CTRL] BarryChamish: Updated, ignore previous
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Barry Chamois [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 7:16 PM Subject: updated, ignore previous I'm not sure if I did the right thing, but I sent the following yesterday before Shabbat hoping it would protect me and my family from the kinds of attacks we suffered this week. This work of mine is taking an ugly turn. I hoped to protect myself from further harassment and blackmail by exposing the horrible slander my whole family was subjected to this week. If I expect truth from our leaders, I may as well provide myself as an example of it. I may not be perfect but as far as I've known, I've never harmed an innocent person in my life and there are people in this country threatening to harm my innocent family. And no, I don't know if it's worth it anymore. Forgive me if I am being self-indulgent. My family is under threat. *** THEY WIN, I THINK IT'S TIME TO QUIT By Barry Chamish The authorities win, I think it's time to quit. Last week, I released two police documents which proved beyond any doubt that Yigal Amir did not shoot fatal bullets at Yitzhak Rabin. Since then my life has been a living Hell. My daughter has communications problems and my wife turned to our city's education dept. for advice. We went to a social worker to discuss the possible roots of the problem and another meeting was set. On Sunday we went to it and were amazed to find a room full of shrinks, principals, social workers and a policewoman. Then the inquisition began. After my wife was accused of not feeding, clothing or bathing the children, all total lies, it was my turn. I was accused of harboring weapons, apparently for an insurrection. Then, every trick was used to get me to confess to being a wife beater and child abuser. The policewoman wasready to pounce if I gave a hint that any charge was true. But none was, so she left early. We were stunned and didn't understand what was happening to us. I woke up when the social worker, in a last gasp of desperation said, Admit it, you're the king of paranoiacs. Today, I received a phone call from an educator who said, The meeting wasn't about helping your daughter, it was to put you out of commission for good. I found the energy to sue the city for slander and submit complaints to the appropriate government offices. But my wife has not recovered and she wants out of the marriage. She can't carry on with my work anymore. Later in the week came the mailed threats to reveal my past if I send out the police documents anymore. The threat was if I go on, my family goes down with me. Yes, I do have a past and I'm confessing it all. During the Sixties, I was a hippie and tried numerous drugs. During part of my bachelor days I lived in a dorm and participated in sexual promiscuity, voyeurism and drunkedness. Once, I was caught stealing cigarettes from a supermarket. I had some failed business ventures where deceit played a role, though not solely by me. All that is long past. I am long married and the days of inebriation and sexual excesses are just as long, gone. But I have been promised that it will all be dredged up if I carry on. The world is collapsing and I'd like to think I'm playing some small role in trying to preserve human life from tyrants. I'd like to believe that I'm bringing justice to my nation by exposing the Rabin murder and the true Oslo peace. But it's too much now. If I carry on I lose my family, children's peace of mind and my reputation. There may be no consoling my wife from this week's humiliation. So what am I supposed to do? end Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl
[CTRL] Guardian: How the Plotters Slipped US Net
on Hotmail. According to the FBI, the conspirators had not used encryption or concealment methods. Once found, the emails could be openly read. The allegation that plans have been hidden inside internet porn has, so far, proven unsupported. A few days before the attack, a team from the University of Michigan reported they had searched for images that might contain terror plans, using a network of computers to look for the signature of steganography. According to researchers at the Centre for Information Technology Integration, they analysed two million images_ but have not been able to find a single hidden message (see www.citi.umich.edu/techreports/reports/citi-tr-01-11.pdf). The FBI said this week they had nothing further to add. US and British communications intelligence agencies are also examining past internet intercepts. Information will be incorporated into a secret report to the US Congress, but will not be made publicly available. One US senator has claimed that soon after the attack, NSA received a call from a US cell phone to a suspected bin Laden operative in Europe announcing: We hit the targets. Despite the forthright position taken by the FBI, some US newspapers have continued to report technological myths in circulation before the attack. Last Friday, the Washington Post claimed the inventor of the widely used PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) encryption system, Phil Zimmermann, had been crying every day... overwhelmed with feelings of guilt. Although the FBI had already said they had found no evidence of these terrorists using encryption, Post readers were told that Zimmermann has trouble dealing with the reality that his software was likely used for evil. (see www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1234-2001Sep20.html) In a public statement this week, Zimmermann accused the Post of serious misrepresentation in publishing things he never said. Read my lips, he said, I have no regrets about developing PGP. His grief had been for the victims, not for culpability about his invention. The Washington Post and other US newspapers have also reported that bin Laden has access to satellites more powerful than the NSA's, and uses a communications company controlled by a relative to overcome US monitoring. Neither the satellites nor the company exist. Dr Brian Gladman, formerly responsible for electronic security at the Ministry of Defence and Nato, believes that the reason that the terrorists didn't use encrypted email is that it would have stood out like a sore thumb to NSA's surveillance network, enabling them to focus on who they were. There is also evidence that, when communicating, the terrorists used simple open codes to conceal who and what they were talking about. This low-tech method works. Unless given leads about who to watch, even the vast Echelon network run by NSA and GCHQ cannot separate such messages from innocuous traffic. NSA's problem, says Gladman, is that the volume of communications is killing them. They just can't keep up. It's not about encryption. NSA has been attempting to keep up with the internet by building huge online storage systems to hold and sift email. The first such system, designed in 1996 and delivered last year, is known as Sombrero VI. It holds a petabyte of information. A petabyte is a million gigabytes, and is roughly equivalent to eight times the information in the Library of Congress. NSA is now implementing a Petaplex system, at least 20 times larger. It is designed to hold internet records for up to 90 days. Dr Gladman and other experts believe that, unless primed by intelligence from traditional agents, these massive spy libraries are doomed to fail. The problem with NSA's purely technological approach is that it cannot know what it is looking for. While computers can search for patterns, the problem of correlating different pieces of information rises exponentially as ever more communications are intercepted. In short, NSA's mighty technology apparatus can easily be rendered blind, as happened here, if it has nothing to start from. The new legal plans may therefore do more harm than good. According to Cambridge computer security specialist Dr Ian Miller, bringing back escrow will damage our security in other ways, and divert an enormous amount of effort that would far better be spent elsewhere. It won't inconvenience competent terrorists in the least. PGP inventor Phil Zimmermann thinks the penalty of politicians misunderstanding technology will be even more costly. If we install blanket surveillance systems, it will mean the terrorists have won. The terrorists will have cost us our freedom. . Duncan Campbell is a freelance investigative journalist. . Comments to online.feedback @guardian.co.uk Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends
[CTRL] AFP: Two weeks after US terror, Iran once again cries Death to America
-Caveat Lector- http://english.hk.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/afp/article.html?s=h ke/headlines/010927/world/afp/Two_weeks_after_US_terror__Iran_once_again_cr ies__Death_to_America_.html Thursday, September 27 12:04 AM SGT Two weeks after US terror, Iran once again cries Death to America TEHRAN, Sept 26 (AFP) - After a two-week hiatus since the attacks on the United States, loud cries of Death to America rang out again in Iran on Wednesday as its leaders firmly ruled out joining a US-led anti-terror coalition. Privately, several ordinary Iranians felt Tehran had missed the boat for patching up relations with Washington. You, who have always caused blows to Iran's interests, how dare you request help (from us) in order to attack the innocent Muslim nation of Afghanistan which has suffered and which is our neighbour, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said. The Islamic Republic of Iran will not participate in any move which is headed by the United States, he said ending days of speculation on whether ties would thaw with Washington, which was one of Tehran's closest allies up until the 1979 Islamic revolution that led to links being severed. Khamenei's address drew, for the first time since the September 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington, loud cries of Death to America broadcast repeatedly by the Iranian state media. Since the wave of attacks on the United States, which were swiftly condemned by Iran, there had been signs of an easing of Tehran's position toward Washington, which carries Iran on its list of rogue states. Numerous candlelit vigils for the dead were held in Iran's 10-million strong capital, and no anti-US slogans were chanted by Friday prayer leaders in Tehran. There was also a minute of silence observed by 40,000 spectators when Iran's national football team played Bahrain, while Tehran mayor Morteza Alviri, in an unprecedented move, expressed condolences to his New York counterpart, Rudy Giuliani. But Tehran's rejection of joining a US-led international coalition is worrying some Iranians who are now speculating over the consequences the decision may have on their lives. Iran itself is branded a terrorist country which is why it should have agreed to cooperate, said 21-year-old Tehran computer student Hani. I don't know about the politicians, but the Iranian people would like to have ties with America, she said. Now, one of the consequences of Iran's decision may be that US scepticism towards Iran will rise anew, given that we already are on their list of terrorist states, Hani added. Mahin, a 56-year-old housewife and mother of three, was not surprised by the decision but said Iran had missed a golden opportunity. Bad incidents in life either bring you close together, or separate you. This was one of those incidents, and I think we missed a golden opportunity, she said. Iranian officials have in past days stepped up their opposition to a US-led international coalition. Instead, they have called for the United Nations to spearhead the drive against terrorism. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NYP: OSAMA PLOTTED TO FREE SHEIK BY SNATCHING U.S. BIG: EX-SOLDIER
-Caveat Lector- NYPOST OSAMA PLOTTED TO FREE SHEIK BY SNATCHING U.S. BIG: EX-SOLDIER By BILL HOFFMANN September 27, 2001 -- An ex-soldier for Osama bin Laden says the terror chief planned to kidnap a high-ranking U.S. official and offer to swap him for the blind sheik imprisoned for the 1993 World Trade Center attack. The next plan is to release Omar Abdel Rahman from jail, the former fighter says on ABC's PrimeTime Thursday. Maybe they kidnap [an] ambassador there and bring him to Afghanistan, and ask for release. They are trying, even now, just looking for a chance. Rahman is serving a life sentence in a maximum-security federal prison for masterminding the WTC bombing eight years ago. The fighter, who goes by the pseudonym Max, tells the network - in an interview conducted at a secret location before the Sept. 11 attacks - he believes bin Laden's international terrorist network, al Qaeda, would be willing to conduct an armed operation to pull off the abduction, even though it would be difficult for them. Asked if the official could be kidnapped in the United States, Max says: Yeah, it's possible, to hijack plane, or . . . The terrorist, who said he trained at an al Qaeda camp, says he heard bin Laden's chief of security Saif Al-Adel speak of the kidnap plot. The retired soldier also says bin Laden is convinced he will eventually be killed by the United States and is afraid of dying. He doesn't stay more than 48 hours in one location and he changes cars, and buses, and so, it means that he's scared. But, Max said, there are other terrorists ready to step in and replace him. It's not that small an organization . . . It's more than 3,000. Different nationalities . . . Armed, he says. One of bin Laden's escape methods is by way of a very old Mercedes bus, he says. The interview airs tonight at 10 p.m. on WABC/Channel 7. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NYP: COMMANDOS PLAN TERROR-LAIR STRIKES
-Caveat Lector- NYPost COMMANDOS PLAN TERROR-LAIR STRIKES By NILES LATHEM September 27, 2001 -- WASHINGTON - U.S. commando teams are planning secret operations designed to capture scores - and possibly hundreds - of Osama bin Laden's henchmen, The Post has learned. Military experts inside and outside the government said last night that raids aimed at taking prisoners in Afghanistan to gain vital intelligence about the whereabouts of terrorist lairs figures prominently in the Pentagon's emerging strategy to hunt down bin Laden and destroy his terror empire. Bin Laden disappeared on the day of the kamikaze attacks on the World Trade Center, and U.S. intelligence agencies believe his terror camps are now empty - with hundreds of his loyal fighters scattered in a network of caves and tunnels throughout the rugged terrain of southern Afghanistan. Officials familiar with the ongoing war planning at the Pentagon say there will probably be an initial wave of U.S. airstrikes against military targets of the Taliban - designed mainly to create a safer atmosphere for U.S. ground forces to operate. After that, officials foresee a rapidly changing and constantly evolving battlefield in which small groups of highly trained U.S. commandos are quickly inserted from bases in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Pakistan to hunt down an elusive, mobile and widely dispersed enemy force. This is not Baghdad or Belgrade, where we had fixed targets, said a U.S. official. This will involve tracking down terrorists in groups of a dozen or more all over Afghanistan. U.S. officials expect snatch teams from elite commando units including the Army's Delta Force, which specializes in hostage rescue and anti-terrorist raids, will be deployed for lightning strikes against suspected terrorist lairs to take prisoners, who will then be interrogated about their knowledge of other terrorist hideouts. The taking of prisoners is going to be very important in this operation. Their strategy is going to be very similar to the way the FBI and the DEA tries to unravel any criminal enterprise - which is to arrest people and work up the food chain, said John Pike, who heads the military analysis think tank GlobalSecurity.org It's why you hear all this talk from the leadership about this being a dirty war in the shadows, added one military official. Special Forces units engaged in similar operations against the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War. In 1997, Special Forces units also roamed the Colombian countryside to capture Medellin drug lord Pablo Escobar. The taking of prisoners will not be the only method U.S. forces will use to hunt down bin Laden. The CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency also will use special sensors, thermal imagery, microphones and Predator drone aircraft to try to locate bands of terrorists. Most of the attacks, U.S. officials believe, will come as bin Laden's forces try to move from hideout to hideout, Pentagon officials said. Officials describe several likely combat scenarios in which commandos are used to pinpoint locations of terrorist units and call in airstrikes or larger attacks using helicopter gunships or Green Berets dropping by rope from specially designed helicopters that evade enemy radar by flying at high speeds over treetops at night. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NYDN: Agents Probe Flight Training
-Caveat Lector- Agents Probe Flight Training By RUSS BUETTNER Staff Writer New York Daily News Original Publication Date: 9/27/01 Federal agents are investigating whether hijackers who steered two jets into the World Trade Center practiced their deadly routes in small rented planes. The FBI has asked the operators of flight schools at the Essex County Airport in New Jersey if they rented planes to the hijackers in the weeks before the Sept. 11 attack. Special Agent Sandra Carroll, an FBI spokeswoman in New Jersey, declined to discuss the test-flight scenario, other than to say the queries were part of a sweeping effort to retrace the hijackers' actions and contacts. What we're trying to determine is what movements they may have had, what contacts, she said. If in fact they did do practice runs, how relevant is that right now from a criminal investigation standpoint? I don't know. Carroll would not say which of the hijackers may have rented planes in New Jersey or how many flights they may have taken. Federal regulations require pilots of small planes operating under visual flight rules to stay below 1,100 feet along the East and Hudson rivers. The planes are not allowed to fly over Manhattan. Citing an unnamed investigator, The Star-Ledger of Newark reported that the owner of Caldwell Flight Academy told investigators he had recently rented planes to some of the hijackers - and that it was now believed they made practice runs or rehearsals near the Trade Center. People working at the school yesterday declined to comment. The FBI has been here, said a man who answered the phone at the Caldwell school. They've been to every flight school in New Jersey. The 25-mile route from the Essex airport to lower Manhattan and along the island is popular with pilots. Northbound you fly within 100 yards of the Trade Center, said Joe Orlando, who has flown out of Caldwell for the past five years. You used to get a beautiful view of the towers, a view that in retrospect was probably too close. The Federal Aviation Administration has banned small planes from the area since the terrorist attack. FBI agents have visited every flight school in New Jersey, along with numerous strip clubs, check-cashing businesses and scores of businesses in Paterson, where two of the men are believed to have lived recently. Meanwhile, a Virginia security guard whose name and phone number appeared on a map in the car of one of the hijackers was ordered jailed without bond in Virginia. Mohamed Abdi, 44, was arrested on forgery charges unrelated to the attacks. Prosecutors said he was a security guard who once worked for an airline catering firm. In another development, U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White said that a radiologist from San Antonio, Tex., detained after the attacks and released Tuesday, was never a focus of the investigation. Dr. Albader Alhazmi voluntarily answered all questions put to him, White said. He was not and is not a subject of this investigation. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] townhall.com: The challenge facing Ridge is emphasized by a slowly emerging scandal
-Caveat Lector- townhall.com Robert Novak September 27, 2001 Tom Ridge's challenge WASHINGTON -- The monumental challenge facing Tom Ridge in battling terrorism on the home front is emphasized by a slowly emerging scandal. The FBI had advance indications of plans to hijack U.S. airliners and use them as weapons, but neither acted on them nor distributed the intelligence to local police agencies. From the moment of the Sept. 11 attacks, high-ranking federal officials insisted that the terrorists' method of operation surprised them. Many stick to that story. Actually, elements of the hijacking plan were known to the FBI as early as 1995 and, if coupled with current information, might have uncovered the plot. This looks less like an intelligence failure than a law enforcement fiasco. While the CIA missed the conspiracy's overseas roots, the FBI did not share or interpret available information. Can former Pennsylvania Gov. Ridge, operating from a White House office, get this most famous and haughty of American police agencies to share what it knows with local officers in the interest of the public's safety? A critical question about the new kind of war declared by President Bush is whether he conveys undisputed authority for Ridge to change the FBI's ways. The shape of what happened Sept. 11 dates back to 1995, when chemicals intended to destroy U.S. commercial flights in mid-air exploded in a Manila apartment used by convicted terrorist Ramzi Yousef (now serving a life sentence for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing). Chief Superintendent Avelino Razon of the Philippine police revealed shortly after the attacks that the terrorist cell discovered in 1995 had drawn up plans for using suicide pilots. On Sept. 19, CNN's Eileen O'Connor reported that the Philippine police in 1995 had learned of the plan to turn passenger airliners into flying bombs. The targets she listed: the Pentagon, CIA headquarters outside Washington, the TransAmerica building in San Francisco, the Sears tower in Chicago and New York's World Trade Center. More details were revealed last Sunday in The Washington Post. This background would have been critical had it been connected on Aug. 13 with a flight school in Eagan, Minn., telling the FBI of peculiar behavior by one of its students, Zacarias Moussaoui. He wanted to take 747 simulator training but only to learn how to steer, not to land or take off. Moussaoui was arrested for lack of a valid visa and held for deportation. But no connection was made with the 1995 revelations. Indeed, senior government officials are still in denial. Federal Aviation Administrator Jane Garvey, at her New York JFK Airport press conference Monday, said: No one could imagine someone being willing to commit suicide, being willing to use an airplane as a lethal weapon. The FBI could, but apparently never alerted the FAA. A week after the attacks, FBI Director Robert Mueller said: The fact that there were a number of individuals that happened to receive training at flight schools here is news, quite obviously. If we had understood that to be the case, ... perhaps one could have averted this. But the FBI could have linked the Philippine revelations with information about Moussaoui. It's the same old FBI, said a law enforcement expert who did not want his name used, complaining that the bureau always has kept state and local police in the dark. That view was expressed this week in Charleston, S.C., during a private conference of police officials. They see protection of citizens a responsibility more of 650,000 state and local officers than of the 11,500 FBI agents. This is not a federal problem, Johnny Mack Brown of Greenville, S.C., former head of the National Sheriffs' Association, told me. This is an American law enforcement problem. The FBI certainly has to get this information to the local authorities. That defines Tom Ridge's daunting mission. Some senators, though they like and respect Ridge, would have preferred New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani as a tough former federal prosecutor not awed by the bureau. But anybody, working as terrorism czar from the White House with no line authority, might suffer the fate of ineffective federal drug czars. The president must make sure his fellow former governor can open to the nation's police vital intelligence hoarded by the FBI. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis
[CTRL] REU: BIS coordinating suspects list after U.S. attacks
-Caveat Lector- Here's an interesting description on another international alphabet group (BIS Bank for International Settlements). --MS ___ BIS coordinating suspects list after U.S. attacks (1) Source: RTR_NA - Reuters North American Securities News Sep 26 11:07 BASEL, Switzerland, Sept 26 (Reuters) - The Bank for International Settlements said on Wednesday it is pulling together lists of possible suspects in the hunt for people linked to attacks on U.S. landmarks. The BIS, a bank and forum for the world's central banks, will distribute the list to major central banks and regulators. It is true that the BIS has been assisting national central banks and supervisors at their request to consolidate a list of suspected terrorists provided by national police and intelligence authorities, a BIS spokeswoman said. She said the BIS was coordinating the effort in order to spare individual central banks the need to check multiple, repetitive lists. All the names provided have come from the national police and intelligence authorities, the spokeswoman said, noting the BIS had not added any names to the list. Once the list is complete, it will be sent to a limited number of central banks and supervisory authorities in Group of 10 (G10) and European countries, she said, but added it was too early to say how long it would take to complete the roster. The G10 actually comprises 11 countries: Belgium, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United States and Switzerland. It is an unusual job for the Basel-based BIS, whose international role has traditionally been more tied to strictly financial tasks, such as helping to administer multilateral rescue packages for debtor countries. The BIS was originally set up in neutral Switzerland in 1930 to facilitate German reparations after World War I. It is also the headquarters for the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, chaired by New York Federal Reserve President William McDonough. The Basel Committee sets global standards and practices for the banking industry. ((Zurich newsroom, tel +41 1 631 73 40, fax +41 1 251 04 76, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED])) Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] New Game: Kill bin Laden in his liquor store
-Caveat Lector- This is a great game. They say that the free downloadable version will be available any day at the same site [due to popular demand]. Btw, have you seen the bin Laden piñatas being sold? They are a VERY GOOD near-life-size likeness, designed for adults to vent anger...and, all for only $29.95. Talk about great opportunistic entrepeneurialism! Beets price gouging, don't you think? WARNING: It is a tad violentno guts, but more and more blood builds up on and around the walls near the check-out counter with each confirmed bin Laden kill. I hope this game is not removed, like the ShootOsama game was. Just go to the below site and wait for it to load. http://www.fieler.com/terror/ Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Reuters: ID cards don't stop crime
-Caveat Lector- http://uk.news.yahoo.com/010924/80/c54un.html ID cards don't stop crime LONDON (Reuters) - Civil liberties groups are crying foul over the possible introduction of identity cards in Britain, claiming they would infringe liberty but have little impact on the West's newly declared war on terrorism. Britons have only ever had to carry identity documents during wartime, unlike the majority of Europeans, who have to produce ID cards at the request of police or officials. But the September 11 suicide attacks in the United States, which left early 7,000 dead or missing, have focused attention on whether Britain strikes the right balance between individual liberty and public safety. Home Secretary David Blunkett says the possible introduction of identity cards in Britain was being studied very seriously indeed. Civil liberties groups accused the government of planning to exploit the U.S. calamity to rush through legislation. I think it's just one of a series of anti-civil libertarian measures they (the government) want to put in place and they have been waiting years to do it, said Trevor Hemmings, a spokesman for Statewatch, which monitors civil liberties across Europe. Building a database in Britain would not solve the problem, said the London-based group. People who perpetrate these kind of things usually use false ID. Leading politicians have also expressed caution. Charles Kennedy, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, said ID cards had failed to stop terrorism in other countries such as France, Spain and Italy. Rushed legislation, particularly if it's got all-party agreement, history teaches, is usually bad legislation, he said. Liberty, a group which campaigns for personal freedom, insisted that bringing in ID was neither necessary nor desirable. Mark Littlewood, its director of campaigns, told Reuters: Our concern is that this is, however well-intentioned, a very misguided response to the necessary war on terrorism. It will potentially significantly undermine civil liberties, but it will have no impact in reducing crime or terrorism in the UK. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NYT: How the Twin Towers Fell
. Magnusson and others said they were initially surprised that the buildings went straight down without sliding to the side or toppling. Pictures of the collapse indicate that the buildings' outer support structures may have helped guide the falling floors, Mr. Magnusson said. The buildings had a so-called metal tube structure design, which consisted of hundreds of steel columns spaced around the outer face of each tower to give the structures stiffness and to support much of their weight, including the floor pads. This outer ring was connected by steel trusses to a cluster of metal columns in the center that supported core components such as elevators and stairs, as well as part of each concrete floor. Mr. Magnusson said the outer tubes of the buildings, consisting of 61 steel columns on each of a tower's four sides, seemed to keep the concrete floors aligned as they fell. As you look at the videotape, it seems that as the building frame peels back, it stays long enough for the floors to pass, Mr. Magnusson said. The reason the buildings stood and the reason they went straight down was that strong exterior tube. Kadosh,,, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] LT: Flood of cheap Afghan heroin
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001330016-2001332309,00.html TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 25 2001 Flood of cheap Afghan heroin FROM STEPHEN FARRELL IN ISLAMABAD AFGHAN farmers are ready to swamp world markets with heroin amid signs that the Taleban has dropped its ban on opium growing. The ban was imposed by Mullah Muhammad Omar last year, leaving many farmers ruined. But the sudden halving of the price of raw opium to $250 a kg suggests the decree has been reversed. Even if it remains in place, desperate farmers are expected to resume planting next month while Taleban security forces are engaged elsewhere. One source confirmed last night: There has definitely been a decrease in the price of opium in Afghanistan in recent days. This would happen either because people expect an increase in supply or a decrease in demand, and if there is one thing from Afghanistan which is guaranteed to have an international demand, it is opium. Afghanistan produced 75 per cent of the world's opium last year and Mullah Omar's ban was seen as one of the few attempts by a pariah regime to gain credit with the international community. Its enforcement was ruthless and efficient. UN figures show that Afghanistanís opium production was 4,600 tonnes in 1999, but this is thought to have dropped to 100 tonnes this year. The respite, however, may prove short-lived. One Western source said: The farmers have to decide by mid-October if they are going to plant. The more we move into a campaign the more incentive they have to cultivate poppies. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] CNET: ISPs aid FBI in terrorist search
think there is some indication that there may have been some information posted to different groups that didn't specifically alert people at the time, but now they may be able to go back and connect it to the suspects, he said. Two days ago, a (virulent) e-mail may not have meant anything, he said, but today they will run it down and see if it's a clue. News.com's Jim Hu and Reuters contributed to this report. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NYT: 2 Leaders Tell of Plot to Kill Bush in Genoa
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/26/international/middleeast/26PLOT.html September 26, 2001 THE CONSPIRACY 2 Leaders Tell of Plot to Kill Bush in Genoa By DAVID E. SANGER Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 - The president of Egypt and the deputy prime minister of Italy say that Osama bin Laden's network of Islamic terrorists threatened to kill President Bush and other leaders of the industrialized world when they met at a summit meeting in Genoa last July. The White House, in line with longstanding policy not to discuss threats on the president, declined to comment today. In an interview on French television on Monday, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt spoke in specific terms about the threat, saying that on June 13 of this year, we learned of a communiquÈ from bin Laden saying he wanted to assassinate George W. Bush and other G8 heads of state during their summit in Italy. It was a well-known piece of information, Mr. Mubarak added in the interview broadcast by the network France 3. Separately, he told Le Figaro, a major French daily newspaper, that Egyptian intelligence services had told the United States about the threat and that the warning included a reference to an airplane stuffed with explosives. Several days before Mr. Mubarak's interview, in an appearance on Italian television, Gianfranco Fini, the Italian deputy prime minister, discussed parallels between the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and warnings his government had received before the Genoa meeting in July. Many people joked about the Italian Intelligence Force, Mr. Fini said, but actually they had information that in Genoa there was the hypothesis of an attack on the American president with the use of an airplane. That is why we closed the airspace above Genoa and installed antiaircraft missiles. Those who joked should now reflect. The senior American security official said the source of warnings from foreign intelligence agencies was often unclear, and the volume was so great that serious threats were frequently difficult to separate from false alarms. A senior administration official, who could not confirm the accounts, said that foreign intelligence agencies frequently received tips about threats to the president that they passed on to Washington. While there was a general concern about Mr. bin Laden before the July conference in Italy, there had also been concerns about Islamic extremists at other summit meetings, including the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Brunei last year, attended by President Clinton. There was no attack in Genoa. It was marked chiefly by violent protests in the streets by anarchists and anticapitalist demonstrators that resulted in many injuries and the death of one protester at the hands of the Italian police. But participants and reporters who flew into the Christopher Columbus airport, which was closed to commercial traffic, were greeted by the unusual sight of antiaircraft batteries along the runways. One senior American official who has been involved in a number of such summit conferences said today, It's something I have never seen before, especially in such an obvious spot. Since the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington, European and American officials have been reviewing threats from Mr. bin Laden's organization in June and July. Those threats resulted in a number of public warnings around the July 4 holiday, and extra security precautions for Mr. Bush. But after nothing materialized, the concern waned. The most specific warning that Mr. bin Laden planned an attack apparently came from Egyptian intelligence sources. In his interview with Le Figaro, published late last week, Mr. Mubarak said: We had communicated to the Americans certain information from the video made by bin Laden on the 13th of June. It spoke of assassinating President Bush and other heads of state in Rome. It was a question of an airplane stuffed with explosives. These precautions then had been taken. However, people who have viewed the tape say there is no reference on it to any airplane stuffed with explosives, no specific threat to kill the President, and no mention of an attack by aircraft. President Mubarak added that no one had imagined that Boeings filled with passengers would be crashed against the buildings. Italian officials say that the antiaircraft batteries they set up in Genoa were primarily intended to deter an attack from a small plane. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed
[CTRL] BH: Bin Ladens own stake in Mass. biomedical firm
Mahfouz stock ownership, Anderson said: ``They have a vote for their number of shares at the annual meeting. Like any other common stockholder, they're allowed to vote their shares. ``Surely these people have significant investments in other companies,'' he added. ``There must be many, many others because these people have vast amounts of money. Why single out a little company like ours?'' Yahia bin Laden (also spelled Yehia) is one of three brothers who exert the most control over the Saudi-based Bin Laden Group, according to research by PBS' Frontline, and he is currently negotiating with Lebanese officials for a $50 million contract to help rebuild war-torn central town Beirut. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NYT: Army mum on unexplained disappearances of soldiers: Commandos Left a Calling Card: Their Absence
of tactical operation we're looking at, like going into a cave or bunker network full of armed people and making sure none of them get out alive. They're perfect for taking out bin Laden and all the people around him. Because Delta Force operates in great secrecy, no outsider knows the names of its members, much less where they live. Many members do not even tell their families the name of the unit to which they belong. But people in Southern Pines cannot help noticing that something here has changed. People you used to see, you don't see anymore, a waitress at Mac's Restaurant said today. They're here one day and just gone the next. One of the absent may have been the anonymous parishioner at St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church who last week wrote a note in the prayer book requesting blessings for the military and our families as we obliterate evil. At the stationery store, Carol Sylverstein, who works behind the counter, says she assumes that some people who live here are military commandos but prefers to think of them simply as people who shop and go to church and bring their kids to school just like anyone else. You hear words like `delta' and you know more or less what's behind it, but to us, these men as just part of our community, Ms. Sylverstein said. Now they're off doing something we can't even imagine. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] BBC: Iraqis held at US base
-Caveat Lector- http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1565000/1565287.stm BBC News Wednesday, 26 September, 2001, 17:34 GMT 18:34 UK Iraqis held at US base The lorry in which the men were found Seven men have been detained under the Terrorism Act 2000 after being found hidden in a vehicle at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. The men, six of whom are thought to be Iraqis, were concealed in a civilian lorry, which is believed to have entered the UK on Wednesday. A seventh man, thought to be German, has also been arrested. The stowaways were discovered when the lorry in which they were travelling was stopped during a routine search at the entrance to the base. Noises were heard from inside the vehicle and police were called to the base by military personnel shortly before midday. The men were found locked in a compartment under the lorry. 'Illegal immigration' In a statement, Suffolk Police said: All seven men were arrested in connection with offences relating to illegal immigration. Because of the circumstances surrounding their discovery, all seven men were additionally detained under the Terrorism Act 2000. The white lorry remained within a sealed off cordon tonight as investigations continued. Army personnel were also providing security at the scene. The base is used by the United States Air Force and is about 70 miles from Harwich, from which a number of ferry routes operate. Colonel John Snider, vice commander of the 48th Fighter Wing stationed at the base, said: It's an excellent reminder to us all to be vigilant when it comes to force protection. You never know what might happen. The men are being held at an undisclosed location. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] WashPost: Moscow Eager to Tie Rebels In Chechnya to Bin Laden
official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that in 1996 he saw two checks totaling $300,000, drawn on a Malaysian bank, that were funneled to the rebels from a Philippine terrorist group called Abu Sayyaf -- Father of the Sword. Abu Sayyaf was founded by a man who fought with bin Laden against the Soviets in Afghanistan and supposedly was financed by bin Laden's brother-in-law. For Russian officials, such information about Chechen rebel connections is rare. It's most difficult to determine connections between Chechens and the Islamic world, said Nikolai Kovalyov, former head of the Federal Security Service, the domestic successor agency to the KGB, in a recent interview. Even if you capture a person, to extract anything from him is almost impossible. They prefer death with the head raised high. Yastrzhembsky said estimates of the number of Arab mercenaries among the Chechen rebels range from dozens to thousands. The highest government estimate, he said, puts Arabs as 70 percent of the rebel force. But Chechen administrators and journalists estimate that Arabs make up no more than 5 percent to 15 percent of Chechen fighters, who are believed to number at least several thousand. The Arab fighters, they said, come from many countries, including Syria, Yemen, Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Who dispatched them remains in question. During an interview a year ago in an Afghan village, a man named Abu Daud, identified as a bin Laden associate, told the Associated Press that 400 fighters who were trained at bin Laden's camps had been sent to help the Chechen separatists. Islamic extremists figured hardly at all in Chechnya's first war for independence from Russia, from 1994 to 1996. That was clearly a nationalist movement. But when that war ended with no clear winner, Chechnya lay in ruins, presenting fertile ground for Islamic militants. Urus-Martan, Chechnya's third biggest city with about 100,000 people, became their base, and Khattab their military leader. Shervanik Yasuyev, the pro-Russian Chechen administrator of the city, said in an interview that Arab strangers, all strangers, began arriving one by one in 1997, until they numbered 500 or more. They were bearded, wore green or black shirts and longrobes over their pants, and were armed with expensive pistols, according to Yasuyev and other residents. They were known as Wahhabists, a fundamentalist branch of Islam that is dominant in Saudi Arabia, although they came from all over the Middle East. They went to the market and they paid with dollars, said Yasuyev. There was no power here; there was disorder everywhere, and their influence was very strong. Their professed goal was to turn Chechnya into an Islamic state. Freeing Chechnya's Muslims from the Russian yoke was deemed a worthy first step. The Arabs appealed especially to the young men of Urus-Martan. The poor Chechen people were already suffering so much and our young guys simply couldn't think, Yasuyev said. They were ready to accept any ideas. The Arabs augmented their influence by forming an alliance with Basayev, a powerful rival rebel commander. The Wahhabists recruited young men from Urus-Martan to undergo three months of military and religious training at the Serzhen-Yurt camp, about 24 miles outside the city. Khattab visited them there. Khattab, fluent in Russian, is often described as coming from Jordan, where he studied to be a physicist. But Yastrzhembsky said he came from Saudi Arabia, trained in bin Laden's Afghan camps and fought against the Soviets during their disastrous war there. He is now believed to be hiding in Chechnya's southern mountains with the other rebels. © 2001 The Washington Post Company Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL
[CTRL] Xinhauner: Indonesian Muslims Call for Jihad If U.S. Attacks Afghanistan
-Caveat Lector- http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20010925/456181.htm Indonesian Muslims Call for Jihad If U.S. Attacks Afghanistan Xinhuanet 2001.09.25 19:42:33 JAKARTA, September 25 (Xinhuanet) -- Indonesian Muslim organizations Tuesday issued a statement, calling for jihad (holy war) if the United States attacks Afghanistan. The statement was issued by the organizations following a meeting between the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) and other 32 Muslim organizations in the MUI headquarters here. Condemning the U.S. plan to attack Afghanistan, the statement asked the U.S. government to make an introspection into its unfair and double standard attitudes. The statement expressed the hope that the United Nations will not allow a country to attack another country. Asking the Indonesian government not to support the U.S. plan to attack Afghanistan, the statement also called on the government to give no permission to the combat fleet from the U.S. and its allies passing the Indonesian territorial waters. MUI Chairman Amidhan told reporters that issuing the statement does not mean that the MUI urged the people to prepare for war. He stressed that the MUI opposed the recent sweep of American citizens in Solo and other cities. Separately, two Indonesian Islamic groups Tuesday demonstrated in front of the U.S. embassy in Central Jakarta, denouncing the U. S. government's plan to attack Afghanistan. Chairman of the Muhammadiyah Students Association, South Jakarta, Muhammad Supendi said that the rally was a show of solidarity among Islamic believers against the U.S. plan to strike Afghanistan. He said that in case the U.S. carries out its plan to strike Afghanistan, Islamic believers in Indonesia would wage an open war against the U.S. Enditem. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Reu: Interpol Issues Warrant for Key Bin Laden Aide
-Caveat Lector- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010925/wl/attack_hungary_interpol_dc_3.ht ml Tuesday September 25 12:00 PM ET Interpol Issues Warrant for Key Bin Laden Aide BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Interpol Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s right-hand man at the request of Egyptian police authorities, the international police organization said in a statement. It said Aiman Al Zawahri, born in Giza, Egypt in 1951, is the leader of the Al Jihad group and was emerging as one of the key figures in bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. ``Interpol's 179 members are hereby formally requested to try to trace him and if successful, notify the Cairo Interpol bureau as well as Interpol's headquarters in Lyon, France,'' the statement said. It was released ahead of a news conference during Interpol's 70th General Assembly in Budapest. The move by Interpol came on the same day as Saudi Arabia cut its ties with the radical Islamic Taliban in Afghanistan (news - web sites). Afghanistan is believed to shelter Saudi-born fugitive bin Laden, chief suspect for attacks on the U.S. committed on September 11. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] CNN: U.S. considering targeting Taliban drug trade
-Caveat Lector- http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/24/ret.taliban.drugs/index.html U.S. considering targeting Taliban drug trade September 24, 2001 Posted: 7:38 PM EDT (2338 GMT) By Jamie McIntyre CNN WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Pentagon officials have targeted illicit-drug production facilities in Afghanistan to cut off the Taliban militia's funding, sources told CNN Monday. Striking at drug facilities is one option military planners are considering as they devise ways military force could be used to pressure the Taliban, a senior Pentagon official said. This is like a football coach having a lot of plays in his play book, the official said. Drug facilities in Afghanistan are on the list of potential targets, the source said. Officials are investigating a full spectrum of options in dealing with the Taliban, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld confirmed Monday. We're intent on altering behavior, Rumsfeld said at a Pentagon briefing. We're intent on attempting to take the steps so that the American people and our interests and friends and allies and deployed forces can go about our business not in fear. Illicit drug trade is the primary source of revenue for the Taliban, bringing it an estimated $50 million a year, U.S. officials say. The Bush administration is trying to squeeze the finances of terrorist groups in general -- Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda in particular -- by freezing their assets and cutting off their sources of revenue. CIA analysts say Afghanistan in 1999 led the world in the illicit production of opium, the substance from which heroin is derived. This year, say U.S. officials, the Taliban banned the cultivation of poppies, the source of opium. The ban apparently has been effective: Almost no poppies are growing in Taliban-controlled regions of Afghanistan, sources say. Still, say analysts, evidence suggests the Taliban have huge stockpiles of poppies, sufficient to keep cash flowing. The ban apparently has not harmed Afghanistan's drug production, according to the CIA, whose fact book lists Afghanistan as major source of hashish. Increasing numbers of heroin-processing laboratories are setting up in the country, and major Afghan political factions profit from their illicit activities, the fact book says. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Greek Authorities Said Fear CIA 'Black Ops,' Expect 17N To Suspend Activity
-Caveat Lector- Greek Authorities Said Fear CIA 'Black Ops,' Expect 17N To Suspend Activity GMP2001092634 Athens To Vima tis Kiriakis in Greek 23 Sep 01 p A23 [Report by Dh. Nikolakopoulos: CIA and FBI 'Black Ops' in Greece] [FBIS Translated Text] The CIA and the FBI will be free to organize black ops (assassinations included), as well as assassinations, throughout the world (including Greece.) Their target would be to hunt down, arrest, and transport members of terrorist groups (like 17 November) to Washington to stand trial. In their opinion, these groups are acting against US national security and interests. These ops can be conducted without the knowledge of our country's authorities, despite the counter-terrorism agreement signed between the United States and Greece. Government executives believe that such a development is a real possibility for the following two reasons: The first is US President Bush's decision to lift--within the context of the US Government's measures for the country's protection from terrorism--the presidential decree that was signed on 4 December 1981 by then US President Reagan and which barred CIA activity abroad, mainly as far as the assassinations of foreign people and leaders were concerned. The second is Greece's designation by the US services as a country with intense terrorist activity, mainly against the US interests. This is something that can be seen in official State Department annual reports on terrorism. The prospect of the CIA organizing black ops in Greece deeply concerns the Greek Government. The government was under intense pressure to proceed to immediate arrests of people that the US secret services merely suspected of being 17N members, even before the terrorist attack on New York's twin towers. It goes without saying that the US authorities did not have the evidence required to take them to court. US secret service officials openly threatened in the past to make use of the classified directive that became effective in January 1986 under Reagan, allowing the CIA and the FBI to arrest terrorists abroad and transport them to the United States to stand trial. The conduct of joint operations by the antiterrorist squad and the FBI to apprehend members of the 17N is today one of the conditions of the counter-terrorism agreement signed between the United States and Greece. This agreement in a way legitimized similar operations in the past, designed to infiltrate the terrorist groups through the selling of weapons and explosives--even though these operations ended up in fiascoes. Furthermore, investigations took place in the houses of people suspected of terrorist activity. Notwithstanding, government executives cannot even fathom that the US secret services would organize on Greek soil unilateral black ops, or even the murders of individuals thought--or even proved--to be members of terrorist groups. Such a development would be disastrous for the democratic institutions and protection of the citizens' individual rights, a government executive told To Vima. He admits, however, that following Black Tuesday in the United States, everything concerning the 17N investigations has changed drastically. The new developments, in conjunction with the need to guarantee the security of the 2004 Olympic Games--nobody doubts that the pressure will become more intense in the future--are affecting the Greek Government's decision to close the domestic front of terrorism at all cost. This means that 17N must either be disbanded or forced to suspend its activity. Government executives believe that a possible reappearance of 17 November would become today a hammering ram against our country. They are apprehensive, however, of the authorities' ability to achieve immediate results, namely to arrest and take to court members of the 17 November group. Despite this, the investigations have produced important evidence that can bring about specific results in the fight against terrorism. 17N is not likely today to operate as it did in the past, they stress. They Expect a 17N Proclamation The Public Order Ministry officials are eagerly expecting the next proclamation by 17 November, in which the group will be expressing its view on the terrorist attack of 11 September on New York and the Pentagon. They believe that this proclamation will be the first clear indication of whether the 17N will follow--even under different circumstances--the example of European terrorist groups like the RAF and suspend its activity--at least temporarily. [Description of Source: Athens To Vima tis Kiriakis in Greek -- Left-of-Center Weekly newspaper; Sunday edition of To Vima] Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends
[CTRL] ChgoTrib: Some Situations, Names and relationships of Afghan players
and the Northern Alliance's most effective leader, was assassinated--apparently at the hands of the Taliban--two days before the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center. The Northern Alliance elements that took charge of Afghanistan between the Soviet withdrawal and the Taliban takeover lacked popular appeal because they tended to favor their own ethnic minority. They also allowed corruption and crime to run rampant, and were so ineffective and lax that Afghanistan had little or no government. The Taliban, though its religion-based cruelty and suppression have since made it unpopular, initially was welcomed as a unifying and stabilizing force. Groups in alliance At present, the Northern Alliance is divided into several groups: - One is the largely Tajik Jamiat-I-Islami, led by Gen. Mohammed Fahim Khan, Massood's successor. According to an intelligence report prepared for the Federation of American Scientists, this group's northern stronghold includes large-scale opium growing territory, and some of the group's leaders are known for torturing prisoners to death. - The predominantly Uzbek National Islamic Movement is led by Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, who has worked closely with Uzbekistan and Russia. He is said to have the best equipped rebel force in the field. - The Islamic Society is led by Burhanuddin Rabbani, who served as president of Afghanistan before the Taliban takeover. A former professor of Islamic law at Kabul University, Rabbani considers himself the titular head of the Northern Alliance and is still recognized by some countries as the legitimate ruler of Afghanistan. He has close ties to Tajikistan, holds Afghanistan's seat in the United Nations and maintains embassies in 33 countries. - The Shi'a Muslim Hizb-I-Wahdat of the Hazara ethnic group is led by Karin Khalili. - The Pushtuns are fighting with the Northern Alliance under their leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who has argued that bin Laden is not involved in the attacks on the U.S. There are other groups, and some of them have no names, who don't want to be united with the Northern Alliance, said Rubin. The alliance cannot form a new government. That would just cause an ethnic civil war. According to what they're telling me, they know that. That's why they're working politically with the former king to form a more broad-based government, he added. The king, Zahir Shah, has been in exile since 1973. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] San Diegans fighting new war from their computer terminals
-Caveat Lector- NEIL MORGAN San Diegans fighting new war from their computer terminals September 23, 2001 Like so much else before 9.11.01, it plays back to us now like a black-and-white movie. Remember the cyberspace manhunt for the kid computer hacker Kevin Mitnick, then on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list? It gripped the world in 1999, until Tsutomu Shimomura, the eccentric genius at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, finally outsmarted the kid and ended his knockdown raids on U.S. corporations and universities. What's changed since then in computer terrorism and counterterrorism? Everything, but not as much as we might wish. The hero Shimomura left the supercomputer campus to live at Lake Tahoe. One of the smartest people on the planet, as colleague Sid Karin calls him, Shimomura is revered as a master computer sleuth and takes on only cases that intrigue him. And Mitnick? Out of jail now, he conducts an early-morning computer show on Los Angeles radio. Meanwhile, computer encryption has become the workaday mask of terrorism. Federal surveillance of the Internet has become a covert industry. This nation's 13 federal intelligence agencies are being told to streamline and cooperate in war. Two days after the attacks in New York and Washington, the Combating Terrorism Act of 2001 was introduced as an amendment to a federal appropriations bill and quietly passed the Senate. It may become part of the legislative package coming to Congress from Attorney General John Ashcroft. Section 832 is at its crux: It would enhance the U.S. government's powers to spy on suspects' communications in cyberspace. In the short space of two years since Kevin Mitnick was on the run across America like a fleeing train robber, this is not entertainment anymore. This is a war for the life of the world's most powerful nation. Yet under restrictions against such undercover spy networks as those from which John Le Carre wrote magic yarns, our 13 intelligence agencies now may garner as much as 70 percent of their information from open source intelligence Web sites. One reasonably wonders: Are these Osama bin Laden's hackers? Both in secret intelligence personnel and in institutional power like that of UCSD, the Supercomputer Center and the FBI's Regional Computer Forensic Lab, San Diego is in the midst of America's war against computer terrorism. Some online slip that renders bin Laden vulnerable would stand in history like the code breaking that helped make the Allies victors in World War II. These are pivotal intelligence matters about which most sensible Americans would prefer, for the moment, to know rather less than more. It is enough to know that there are formidable San Diegans already long active at the top of this curve. At the Supercomputer Center, Tom Perrine leads the security group. He recently was honored quietly in law enforcement and intelligence circles as San Diego's private sector investigator of the year. A year earlier, the same award went to Abraham Singer, a programmer analyst at the Supercomputer Center. (Each year, one award goes to a law enforcement officer and one to the private sector.) Erin Kenneally, an administrative specialist at the center who is also a lawyer, is especially revered among San Diego judges. She specializes in computer forensics. Defense attorneys in computer criminal cases manage usually to arrive in court well enough versed in computerspeak. Judges call on her to provide seminars to bring them up to speed. Also at the center, Mihir Bellare, an associate professor, focuses on the mathematics of encryptography as a field of computer security. Another programmer analyst, and two colleagues -- Stefan Savage and Geoff Voelker -- study denial-of-service attacks in which computer servers are overwhelmed and disabled. Their work and that of thousands more may never entertain us like the Kevin Mitnick case. But they will help save America. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector
[CTRL] WSJ: Hijackers' Deeds Highlight Issue Of Rampant Fake IDs in the U.S.
. It also says it may support government-issued cards for all airport personnel if airport security is federalized. For airports, the country could go further and issue a sort of air-identity card. To speed frequent international travelers, Electronic Data Systems Corp. developed a system for the Immigration and Naturalization Service using an ID card that includes the unique hand geometry of each person, which would ensure that the card owner is the person holding the card. The system, which has 80,000 registered users, is in use in seven airports in the U.S. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NYP: U.S. TARGETS CHEM SITE
-Caveat Lector- NYPOST U.S. TARGETS CHEM SITE By NILES LATHEM September 26, 2001 -- WASHINGTON - An al Qaeda terror camp, where scientists may be working on chemical weapons, and the Taliban's heroin production facilities will be among the first targets hit when the shooting war starts, The Post has learned. U.S. military planners, working with Russian and Pakistani intelligence agencies and anti-Taliban rebels in northern Afghanistan, have quietly drawn up a list of hundreds of potential targets for airstrikes and ground missions in the early phases of the war on Osama bin Laden's empire of terrorism. Bush administration officials insist that final decisions have not yet been made, pointing out that mapping out strategy against a mobile enemy hiding in caves and tunnels in a mountainous country with few big strategic targets is an immense undertaking. But the Pentagon, which is mobilizing the largest attack force since the Persian Gulf War, is expected to aim much of the U.S. firepower at the Kandahar and Jalalabad regions in southern Afghanistan. That's where the bulk of bin Laden's terror infrastructure is based and where the Taliban's seat of power is located. U.S. officials expect to strike a notorious bin Laden terror camp where intelligence agencies believe experiments have been taking place on chemical and biological weapons. That suspicion is backed up by recent satellite photos that show hundreds of dead animals outside. The Taliban maintains scores of opium and her oin production facilities throughout the country that are likely targets of air and ground attacks. Afghanistan is a worldwide leader in poppy production and the drug trade is a primary source of funding for the Taliban, generating . . . between $50 million and $100 million a year, said Peter Singer, military analyst for the Brookings Institution. Targeting those facilities makes a lot of sense, because not only do we cut off a primary source of funding for the Taliban but it helps in the information warfare - the p.r.effort to paint this regime as a criminal enterprise that is doing very un-Islamic things, Singer added. The White House said yesterday that it's not seeking to replace the Taliban with another government. But administration officials concede that hundreds of strategic and tactical targets of the Taliban, including radio stations, government buildings and military installations are on the Pentagon's hit list. Other targets for U.S. airstrikes include Taliban air bases in Kabul, Kandahar, Shindand and Herat, where the militia maintains a decrepit force of 10 fighter jets and 20 attack helicopters. Bin Laden is believed to have his own small fleet of planes - including a giant transport jet and a small passenger jet. If they can be located, those planes will also be hit to prevent the millionaire Saudi expatriate from fleeing. The United States is also expected to launch airstrikes against Taliban military positions along the front lines in the civil war with the Northern Alliance. U.S. officials want to use the Alliance's Bagram air base as a staging area for commando operations against bin Laden's forces and need to eliminate threats from Taliban forces massed in that area. The Taliban has an estimated 20,000 troops as well as 200 tanks, Stinger anti-aircraft missiles and pickup trucks outfitted with rocket launchers. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NYP: JET PLOT: Osama bin Laden's henchmen tried to buy a multi-million $ Boeing 727
-Caveat Lector- NYPOST JET PLOT By AL GUART September 26, 2001 -- Osama bin Laden's henchmen tried to buy a multi-million dollar Boeing 727 six months before they hijacked commercial planes and slammed them into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, The Post has learned. Someone connected to Osama bin Laden was looking to buy a retired aircraft sometime in March, a federal investigator close to the terrorism probe told The Post. He was also trying to recruit Americans to buy it for him, to act as a front. They got at least as far as kicking tires [in used-airplane lots] in Denver and Tucson, the source said. The suspected terrorists found a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., broker who tried to represent them in the deal, said the source. Bin Laden's followers were also looking to hire American pilots for private training sessions at the time. The source declined to name bin Laden's representatives or the dealers involved. The information, described as not specific enough to have thwarted the Sept. 11 attacks, was passed to the FBI at the time and the agency is looking into the matter, sources said. Mohamed Atta and other hijackers took flying lessons about 200 miles from Fort Lauderdale in July 2000, and logged time on a Boeing 727 flight simulator in Miami. Probers believe they wanted the jet to hone their piloting skills and for possible use in an attack. It looks like they wanted to get the feel of flying a big plane, one source said, noting that the hijackers flew mostly small planes in flight schools around the country. A flight simulator is good, but it isn't the real thing. The four hijacked planes included two Boeing 767s that destroyed the World Trade Center and two 757s, one of which hit the Pentagon, the other of which crashed in a Pennsylvania field. Another view is that terrorists could try using a purchased or leased jet to sidestep airport security. This could be the next step, said terrorism expert and author Tony Dennis. It certainly would be one way to get around any heightened airline security. What this also says is they have serious money, Dennis said. Buying a mothballed 727 or any plane is easy, if you have the money. Right now, there are more than 900 airliners out of service that are subject to sale, said Bob Chipperfield of Jet Traders in Santa Clarita, Calif. The procedure for buying one is pretty straightforward. The plane is listed, contact is made, the plane is inspected and an offer is made. All you need is the money. Boeing 727s cost between $1.5 million to $8 million, depending on the engine and condition, said Gordon Hamilton, president of Hamilton Aviation in Tucson, Ariz., which has 20 jets parked and ready for sale. Aircraft dealers and brokers have kept a wary eye out for drug runners looking to buy planes, but now must remain on alert for customers who might be linked to terrorists, Chipperfield said. Most people in the aviation industry are pretty sharp, Chipperfield said. They would have their antennae up and report anything suspicious right away. Mojave Airport in Southern California now has more than 100 retired jets ready to be refurbished, recertified and sold. The attempt last March would not be the first time bin Laden bought a jet in the United States. In 1992, a pilot named Essam al-Ridi, acting on bin Laden's behalf, paid $250,000 for a decommissioned T-39A jet from the U.S. military. Al-Ridi testified last February in Manhattan federal court that he flew the plane from the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center in Tucson and delivered it to the terror chief's former base in Sudan, where it was to be used to ferry Stinger missiles from Pakistan. There, he met bin Laden. We just had dinner and chatted, al-Ridi testified. I just gave the keys to Osama bin Laden. But the plane's brakes failed and it crashed on the runway, al-Ridi said. Bin Laden, a multimillionaire, has access to several other planes, including an executive jet and a C-130 Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always
[CTRL] NewYorkTimes, Washington Post suppress media recount of Florida vote
and the case of Wen Ho Lee [29 September 2000] Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] SMH: The Afghan rebel whose warnings the US ignored
political objectives: to rebuild Afghanistan under a genuinely broad-based government; and to quell anti-US feeling by resolving the Palestinian problem and lifting sanctions against Iraq. -- Professor Amin Saikal is director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (the Middle East and Central Asia) at the Australian National University. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends - Original Message - From: Scott Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CAS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 8:05 PM Subject: So it *is* a CAS: SMH: The Afghan rebel whose warnings the US ignored http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/25/opinion/opinion2.html The Afghan rebel whose warnings the US ignored Washington has now realised that in quietly endorsing the Taliban seven years ago, it was backing the wrong camp, writes Amin Saikal. The crisis in the United States might have been avoided had Washington heeded the now-slain leader of the Afghan anti-Taliban forces, the legendary Commander Ahmed Shah Massoud, who repeatedly warned that the triangular alliance between the Taliban, Osama bin Laden and Pakistan was turning Afghanistan into a major menace against world stability. Washington's failure to help Massoud cost both him and the US dearly. Massoud died in a suicide bombing attack by two Arabs on September 9. The assassination was apparently organised by bin Laden. Two days later the US fell victim to the worst terrorist attacks in history. Why did the US fail to act earlier over Afghanistan, and is it now able to act responsibly to address the root causes of the crisis? The bin Laden-Taliban-Pakistan (or more specifically Pakistan's military intelligence - ISI) alliance is not a new development. It dates to mid-1994 when Pakistan orchestrated the extremist Taliban militia as the most appropriate force to secure a compliant government in post-communist Afghanistan. At the time, the ISI and CIA were close allies, and the US quietly endorsed the Taliban's entry onto the Afghan scene with Pakistan's military and logistical support (and Saudi and United Arab Emirates financial backing because the latter states wanted an anti-Iranian leverage in Afghanistan). The US also showed no qualms when bin Laden threw the weight of his wealth and Arab connections behind the Taliban and moved into Afghanistan in 1996. Washington viewed the anti-Iranian character of the Taliban, and their purported ability to secure a direct corridor through Afghanistan into the newly independent but resource-rich former Soviet Central Asian Muslim republics, as beneficial. It paid no attention to the possible medium- to long-term consequences. Even after the Taliban takeover of Kabul in mid-1996, Washington ignored Massoud's bitter complaint that an ugly and dangerous alliance was developing between Arab and non-Arab groups, and refused to provide him with the necessary help to combat a complete Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. If it had not been for bin Laden's masterminding the bombing of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in August 1998, Washington might have continued to overlook all of bin Laden's anti-US postures and the Taliban's human rights violations. Although it launched a retaliatory cruise missile attack on bin Laden's training camps in Afghanistan, Washington continued to pursue a policy of no support to any Afghan faction. It overlooked the fact that bin Laden's money and Arab and Pakistani recruits were rapidly changing the balance against the moderate Islamic government of Afghanistan, whom Massoud and his Northern Alliance represented and which still occupied Afghanistan's seat at the United Nations. It refrained from naming Pakistan as a state sponsoring terrorism, or putting maximum pressure on Pakistani governments to rein in the ISI and to close its territory as the only outlet through which bin Laden, his associates and their Taliban protectors could get in and out of Afghanistan. The Clinton Administration seemed deterred by the view that too much pressure on Pakistan, both bankrupt and nuclear-armed, might lead the country to implode, with serious consequences. Its attempts from last year to co-ordinate policies with Moscow and New Delhi to pressure the Taliban to curb narcotics production and hand over bin Laden proved to be half-baked and too late. By now the Taliban and their Arab and Pakistani allies had taken over most of Afghanistan, confining Massoud to the north-eastern quarter and a few areas north of Kabul. Massoud found it imperative, however, to continue the resistance as the only means to a political settlement of the Afghan conflict. He expanded the resistance
[CTRL] ZDNet: Terrorists and steganography
those, too. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Orlando Sentinel: Graham: Terrorists didn't reach all targets
is something the nation must consider, according to D.A. Henderson, a bioterrorism expert at Johns Hopkins University. Nations and dissident groups exist that have both the motivation and access to skills to selectively cultivate some of the most dangerous pathogens and deploy them as agents in acts of terrorism or war, he wrote in a 1998 report for the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. Henderson specifically cited Iraq, which was discovered after the Persian Gulf War to have an extensive biological-weapons program, including bombs, rockets and aircraft spray tanks containing anthrax and botulism, which are highly infectious and often fatal. Iraq and bin Laden, who both consider the United States their most powerful enemy, could very well be in league to develop such weapons and use them, said Yaphe, the former CIA analyst. No one knows if another attack will come. But experts say one clue could be in the surprising nature of the attacks using the jetliners. That is, terrorists likely will try to exploit a security weakness that is not yet obvious. They're going to pick the time and place for the next attack, and they're not going to do the same thing, said Singer, of the Brookings Institution. They're going to find new vulnerabilities or old vulnerabilities we've forgotten about. -- Wire services were used in compiling this report. Mark Schlueb can be reached at 407-420-5417 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christine Shenot can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 407-420-6140. Jon Steinman can be reached at 407-650-6333 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Reuters: Travel Agent Fired for Booking 'Bin Laden'
-Caveat Lector- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010921/od/travelagent_dc_1.html Travel Agent Fired for Booking 'Bin Laden' Friday September 21 7:45 AM ET KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Jittery Pakistan International Airlines said Thursday it had fired a travel agency for booking a passenger named Osama bin Laden on a flight from Karachi to Islamabad for Friday morning. ``PIA Thursday canceled the agency of a regular travel agent who had sent the airline a booking in the name of Osama bin Laden for the Karachi-Islamabad sector,'' the spokesman for the state-run airline told Reuters. A senior PIA official said Karachi-based Princely Travel, was delisted after the airline received information from its central reservation office that a passenger named Osama bin Laden was booked for Friday morning on a Karachi-Islamabad flight. ``We don't know who the passenger is...Is he the prime suspect of attacks on the U.S. or not?...But the decision has been taken to ensure the safety of the airline,'' the official said. U.S. officials have named Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden, who has been living in Afghanistan (news - web sites), as the prime suspect in last week's attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon (news - web sites) in Washington in which thousands of people have died and are missing. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Reuters: US Anti-Gravity Research
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010907/sc/arms_gravity_dc_1.html Science - Reuters - updated 3:52 PM ET Sep 24 US Has Heavily Researched Anti-Gravity, Book Says By Bradley Perrett LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. military may have conducted serious research into anti-gravity based on Nazi studies, a top defense journalist suggests in a new book. In ``The Hunt for Zero Point,'' journalist Nick Cook says, based on a decade's research, he believes by the 1950s the U.S. was seriously working on anti-gravity ``electrogravitics'' technology, which would lift and propel vehicles without wings or thrust. ``I feel intuitively that some vehicle has been developed, particularly given that there is this wealth of scientific data out there, and the Americans have never been slow to pick up on this sort of science,'' Cook, the aerospace consultant for Jane's Defense Weekly, told Reuters in an interview. Cook uncovered reports and sightings of a Nazi research device that had been hidden in a remote part of Poland, where it had apparently been supplied with great quantities of electricity -- which an electrogravitic experiment would require. Curiously, barely a hint of such Nazi research appeared after the war, suggesting that whoever captured it -- probably the United States -- immediately stamped it ``secret,'' he said. Cook noted that, as a respected expert, he is risking his reputation by writing seriously about a technology associated with UFOs, which most scientists dismiss as science fiction embraced by ``hocus-pocus'' believers. The United States is known to have a huge budget for so called ``black projects,'' because it spends more on defense than can be accounted for by adding up the value of public programs. Cook admitted he cannot produce a conclusive case. But that is the nature of black projects, in which even the workers usually have no idea what they are working on. In 1947, amid the early craze of UFO reports, an air force general reported on the possibility of the United States building disc-shaped objects with extreme rates of climb and maneuverability but without noise or evident propulsion. In the mid 1950s electrogravitics was the subject of a few press reports, including one that described work by most of the United States' major defense contractors, Cook reported. And then it all went quiet -- just as stealth technology suddenly disappeared from view in the mid 1970s, only to re-emerge as operational aircraft in the late 1980s. Academic papers on the subject have mysteriously disappeared from libraries. There is still no firm evidence that electrogravitics is more than science fiction. Civilian scientists and amateurs have experimented with it, and while some have reported success, no one seems to have reproduced their results to prove that it works. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends
[CTRL] Two articles on crop-dusting
the suspected hijacker came to the airfield as recently as the Saturday before the terrorist attacks, asking questions about the capabilities of crop-dusters, including how big a load of chemicals they could carry. Atta was very persistent about wanting to know how much the airplane will haul, how fast it will go, what kind of range it has, Lee told ABCNEWS. The guy kept trying to get in the airplane, Lee added, saying his ground crew chief had to order Atta away from one of the planes at one point because he kept trying to climb onto the wing and into the cockpit. Lee said Atta and as many as 12 or 15 other men appearing to be of Middle Eastern descent visited the airfield in groups of two or three on several weekends prior to the attacks, often taking pictures of the aircraft. And, ABCNEWS has confirmed, a manual for a crop-duster was found among the belongings of Zacarias Moussaoui, who has been detained since August and is now under arrest as a material witness. Things like anthrax are easily transported, easily put into a solution that could be dispensed out of a crop-duster, says author and U.S. Navy Cmdr. Ward Carroll Fearing terrorists planned or may still plan to do just that, federal authorities grounded crop-dusters - which can carry a much as 500 gallons of solution - on Sunday. The nationwide ban on agricultural flights, now in its second day, has been extended through 12:05 a.m. local time on Tuesday. Check back for continuous updates on the hunt for terrorists from ABCNEWS' worldwide investigative team. In other developments: . Police Had Hijacker in Custody ABCNEWS has learned that Atta was in police custody five months before he and 18 other terrorists are believed to have hijacked four airliners, crashing three of them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A fourth crashed into a field in Pennsylvania after passengers apparently tried to subdue the hijackers. Atta was stopped by police in Broward County, Fla., in April for driving without a license. A bench warrant was issued for his arrest when he failed to appear for court the following month. . Terrorist Cell in N.J.? Investigators now believe the New Jersey city of Paterson, just 25 miles from the World Trade Center, may have been the base for a major terrorist cell. ABCNEWS has learned that during the three months prior to the attack, 11 of the 19 suspected hijackers lived in or near Paterson, which has a large Muslim community. One Paterson apartment building was home to six of the terrorists until just days before the attacks. According to FBI officials, the third-floor apartment had been rented for the last six months by Nawak Al-Hamzi and Hani Hanjour, two of the men believed to have hijacked the plane that slammed into the Pentagon. At least two of the suspected hijackers stayed at a motel in Wayne, N.J., and others rented small planes at nearby airports for flight practice or rented cars for long road trips. FBI agents are also looking at records from three banks near Paterson where the suspected hijackers kept money. Investigators are trying to determine where those funds originated from. . Presenting the Evidence U.S. officials believe the hijackers belonged to al Qaeda, the terrorist network of Osama bin Laden. The government is preparing a report, called a white paper, that they say will contain evidence of bin Laden's terrorist activities. For those of you looking for a legal peg, we've already indicted Osama bin Laden - he's under indictment for terrorist activity, President Bush told reporters at the White House this morning, referring to the indictment of the Afghanistan-based Saudi exile by U.S. courts for the 1998 bombings of American two embassies in Africa. I think his guilt is going to be very obvious to the world, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday on ABCNEWS' This Week . We are putting all of the information that we have together - the intelligence information, the information being generated by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies. . Worldwide Manhunt Continues Around the world, the manhunt for suspected terrorists intensified with authorities in Belgium, Germany, France, Britain and the Netherlands making several arrests this weekend. Authorities believe up to 30 attacks may have been planned in the United States and Europe following the Sept. 11 attacks and that at least two planned attacks have been thwarted, including bombings in Belgium and an attack by helicopter on the U.S. Embassy in Paris. U.S. law enforcement officials said there are at least two dozen people still at large who have ties to the suspected terrorists. Petrochemical, nuclear energy and trucking companies have been told by the FBI to be on a high state of alert. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies
[CTRL] NYT: HEIR APPARENT: Egyptian Doctor Believed to Be bin Laden's No.2
is through his operations. Dr. Zawahiri had assumed the helm of the Jihad group by the late 1970's, succeeding Ismael Tantawi, who left the country for Germany. In the security dragnet conducted after Mr. Sadat's assassination in 1981, Dr. Zawahiri was one of hundreds of extremists who were arrested, and he acknowledged in an interrogation at the time that Jihad's mission was to undertake a coup. But the authorities could never link Dr. Zawahiri to any direct role in the assassination, and he was released from prison in 1984. He had traveled earlier to Afghanistan to help care for the wounded among mujahedin fighters battling Soviet troops. After he decided to leave Egypt for good, he returned to that region, first to set up a camp in Pakistan to receive Egyptian volunteers heading to Afghanistan to join in the anti- Soviet fight. Officials of Egypt's Ministry of the Interior continue to describe Dr. Zawahiri as the leader of Jihad's military wing, which is blamed for a number of attacks in the 1990's, including the killing of dozens of foreign tourists in 1997 at a Pharaonical site in the southern city of Luxor. Asked in 1993 when he might return to Egypt, Dr. Zawahiri told the London-based newspaper Al Hayat: I will be back as a conqueror only, and I do not accept being back in return for giving up my ideas of Jihad. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] AP: Pentagon intelligence analyst accused of spying for Cuba
-Caveat Lector- Pentagon intelligence analyst accused of spying for Cuba By PETE YOST T The Associated Press 9/21/01 6:51 PM WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Pentagon intelligence analyst who attended war games conducted by the U.S. Atlantic Command in 1996 was charged Friday with spying for Cuba. Ana Belen Montes, an employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency, transmitted a substantial amount of classified information to the Cuban intelligence service, an FBI affidavit alleged. Montes appeared before a U.S. magistrate in Washington and was charged with conspiracy to deliver U.S. national defense information to Cuba. She entered no plea and was ordered held without bond. Montes has worked for the DIA, the intelligence arm of the Defense Department, since 1985, authorities said. In a 17-page affidavit, the FBI alleged that earlier this year Montes contacted the Cuban intelligence service via shortwave radio. The FBI secretly entered Montes' residence under a court order May 25 and uncovered information about several Defense Department issues, including a 1996 war games exercise conducted by the U.S. Atlantic Command. According to the affidavit, the DIA said that Montes attended the war games exercise in Norfolk, Va., as part of her official duties at DIA. The FBI said it found information on the hard drive of her laptop computer. One partially recovered message deals with a particular special access program related to the national defense of the United States, which is so sensitive that it could not be publicly revealed in the court documents, the document said. According to the FBI's affidavit, some of the messages suggested that Montes disclosed the upcoming arrival of a U.S. military intelligence officer in Cuba. As a result, the FBI said, the Cuban government was able to direct its counterintelligence resources against the U.S. officer. The FBI said Montes got a message back from her Cuban handlers stating, We were waiting here for him with open arms. One message from her found on the hard drive was from her Cuban intelligence service handler said that she had provided tremendously useful ... information. Another message from her Cuban contact said in regard to the 1996 war games exercise: Practically everything that takes place there will be of intelligence value. Let's see if it deals with contingency plans and specific targets in Cuba. The DIA confirmed that Montes and a colleague were briefed on the highly sensitive program on May 15, 1997. The FBI said they had Montes under surveillance since May. A DIA spokesman declined to comment beyond saying when Montes had gone to work for the agency. The DIA, based at Bolling Air Force Base in southeast Washington, D.C., provides analyses of foreign countries' military capabilities and troop strengths for Pentagon planners. It also has offices within the Pentagon. Along with the CIA, National Security Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office, the DIA is one of the main agencies of the U.S. intelligence community. The spokesman declined to say whether Montes worked at the Pentagon or at Bolling Air Force Base. In June, Mariano Faget, a U.S. immigration official convicted of disclosing classified information to aid Cuba, was sentenced to five years in prison. Faget, once the second-ranking immigration official in Miami, was convicted after an investigation that also lead to the expulsion of a Cuban spy. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email
[CTRL] FR: Exclusive-Terrorist Paymaster, Probably Bin Laden's Brother Arrested In Orlando, Sent To New York
-Caveat Lector- http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3bab892664b2.htm Law Enforcement Sources, who have been 100% accurate on this story say a man arrested in an Orlando suburb over the weekend is now confirmed as the paymaster for the whole terrorist attack operation. He has been using the name Ahmed Badawi, but FBI believes he is actually is one of the many brothers of Osama Bin Laden! The man, who FBI flew to New York in FBI aircraft yesterday, ran a travel agency in Orlando called Florida Sunny Summer Tours. He also ran a national car delivery service and a check cashing service. The check cashing service gave him ability to move large amounts of cash without arousing suspicion at banks, etc. The car delivery service gave them ability to move people around country with no records or cost. More when we have it. This is a major break... and a FReeper exclusive. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends @admin.listbox.com. In the message body put: unsubscribe cas A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] SFC: Bin Laden's man in Silicon Valley
suburbanite. -- 1970 to 1984 Egypt: Officer in Egyptian army. In 1981, joins radical fundamentalist group, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, which is blamed for assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. -- About 1985 Santa Clara: Moves to U.S.; marries a Santa Clara woman. -- 1986 to 1989 Fort Bragg, N.C.: Enlists in the Army; trains officers at a special warfare center. -- About 1989 Brooklyn, N.Y.: Trains rebel fighters for Afghan war at privately financed recruiting center. -- 1991 Peshawar, Pakistan: Trains terrorists in surveillance and explosives at bin Laden's paramilitary camps. -- 1991 Sudan: Secures safe transport for bin Laden from Afghanistan to new base in Sudan. -- Early to mid-1990s Sudan: Arranges security for meeting between bin Laden and Imad Mughniyeh, security chief for the Iran-sponsored terrorist group Hezbollah. -- 1992to 1994 Nairobi, Kenya: Sets up bin Laden cell in Kenya and scouts for bombing targets. -- 1993 or 1994 Khartoum, Sudan: Shows bin Laden photo of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi. Bin Laden points out where a truck could go in as a suicide bomber. -- 1994 United States: Returns to U.S. from Nairobi for FBI interview. -- 1994 to about 1998 FBI agents trace phone calls from Mohamed's California residences in Santa Clara and, later, Sacramento to bin Laden associates in Nairobi. -- Aug. 24, 1998 Sacramento: After embassy bombings, FBI searches Mohamed's Sacramento apartment. They find documents describing embassy security and outlining how to avoid arrest while conducting surveillance. -- September 1998 New York: Mohamed is called to New York to testify to a grand jury and is arrested for lying. -- October 2000 New York: Pleads guilty to a conspiracy to kill Americans around the world. Sources: Court records from U.S. District Court in New York; interviews with defense lawyers and security experts. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] WT: Iraq suspected of sponsoring terrorist attacks
and forms of terrorism around the world. It is a long-term campaign. It will be done in a deliberate way. It will be done in a decisive way. A military source said bin Laden's relocation to Somalia would put that nation on the Pentagon's list of targets of planned military operations against international terrorists. Moving to Somalia would have symbolic value for bin Laden, who has called on his followers to kill Americans. The U.S. military withdrew from Somalia in 1993 following a deadly battle in Mogadishu that left 18 U.S. Army Rangers dead. The operation was part of a U.S. military humanitarian operation to help feed starving Somalis that degenerated into an effort to hunt down Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] AP: CIA Says No Bars to Recruitment of People With Unsavory Backgrounds for Spy Work
-Caveat Lector- http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAHLE6HQRC.html CIA Says No Bars to Recruitment of People With Unsavory Backgrounds for Spy Work By George Gedda Associated Press Writer Published: Sep 17, 2001 WASHINGTON (AP) - Contrary to the assertions of some lawmakers and administration officials, there are no barriers to CIA recruitment of people, including those with unsavory reputations, who are needed to infiltrate terrorist groups, the CIA said Monday. Spokesman Bill Harlow commented in response to repeated calls in recent days for an easing of perceived recruiting constraints so the CIA can collect information on those responsible for last week's terrorist hijackings and attacks. The CIA has never turned down a field request to recruit an asset in a terrorist organization, Harlow said. Furthermore, the CIA does not avoid contact with individuals, regardless of their past, who may have information about terrorist activities. Another official, asking not to be identified, said the guidelines simply require field officers to obtain approval from headquarters before establishing a relationship with an individual who had engaged in human rights abuses or other disreputable activity. The official added that there seems to be a misunderstanding about whether the guidelines hamstring CIA recruiting efforts. Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday the government needs more than certified good guys to penetrate spy networks. Otherwise, he said, You're not going to find out what the bad guys are doing. You need to be able to penetrate these organizations. Any recruiting restrictions, he said, should be lifted. Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee, said last week, We are not going to find the kinds of spies we need in monasteries. Sen. Richard Shelby. R-Ala., suggested Sunday that the agency needs unsavory characters in its ranks if it is to make headway. Are they people you wouldn't want to invite to your home? Absolutely, Shelby said. But we have to deal with these people to get at the bottom of a lot of information we want like terrorist cells. The CIA recruiting practices made headlines in the mid-1990s following allegations that several CIA agents in Guatemala ordered, planned or took part in human rights abuses, including assassination, since 1984. The most publicized cases involved the killings in Guatemala of an American innkeeper, Michael Devine, in 1990, and of a Guatemalan guerrilla leader, Efrain Bamaca, who was married to an American lawyer. Bamaca was killed in 1992. In 1996, the Intelligence Oversight Board, a presidential panel, found the allegations against CIA personnel in Guatemala to be credible. Then-CIA Director John Deutch took a number of actions, including the dismissal of the chief of the Latin American Division of the CIA's Directorate of Operations. In addition, a former CIA station chief in Guatemala was asked to retire. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NewRep: The Iraq Connection
against the United States. As of yet, there is no evidence of explicit state sponsorship of the September 11 attacks. But absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Does it not seem curious that bin Laden issues fatwas, pushes videotapes, quotes poems, and orders his followers to talk loudly and often about his role in attacks on us? Does someone want our focus to be solely on bin Laden's hard-to-reach self, and not on a senior partner? If we hope to answer that question, the 1993 WTC bombing is a good place to start looking. No one other than the prosecutors, the Clinton Justice Department, and the FBI had access to the materials surrounding that case until they were presented in court, because they were virtually all obtained by a federal grand jury and hence kept not only from the public but from the rest of the government under the extreme secrecy requirements of Rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Now a new administration, a new attorney general, and a new FBI director should investigate the materials that Abdul Basit handled while in the United Kingdom in 1988 and 1989, which were taken into custody by Scotland Yard. If those materials have Yousef's fingerprints on them, then the Fox/Mylroie theory is likely wrong. But if they don't, then Yousef was probably a creature of Iraqi intelligence. Which means that Saddam still considered himself at war with the United States in 1993. And, tragically, he may still today. R. JAMES WOOLSEY is a partner at Shea Gardner in Washington, D.C. He served as director of central intelligence from February 1993 to January 1995. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] LonInd: Coded warnings raise the spectre of a mole inside the White House
-Caveat Lector- http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=93993 By Jeremy Laurance 14 September 2001 As the second airliner slammed into the south tower of the World Trade Centre, Vice-President Dick Cheney was staring at a television in the White House. It was 9.03am. His Secret Service men grabbed him and hurried him down to the President's emergency operations centre, an underground bunker hardened to withstand a nuclear attack On the way to the tubular structure, Mr Cheney was told that another plane, or a helicopter loaded with explosives, was headed for the White House. He promptly called the President in Florida, who had just boarded Air Force One, and urged him not to come back to Washington immediately. In the bunker, the Vice-President was joined by Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, and the Transportation Secretary, Norman Mineta, among others. They were told six commercial aircraft were unaccounted for, all of which were potential missiles. One had supposedly crashed in Kentucky (not true), and another in Pennsylvania (accurate; its passengers or crew, apparently struggling with the hijackers, may have saved the White House). The airliner that had taken off at Dulles - AA Flight 77 - did a 360-degree turn, away from the White House and, at 9.45am, slammed into the Pentagon. At about that time, accounts began coming into the White House bunker that four international flights were headed toward Washington over the Atlantic and another from Korea. It could not be determined whether they were hostile; part of the terrorist scheme. US fighters and an Awacs control aircraft scrambled. A threatening message received by the Secret Service was relayed to the agents with the President that Air Force One is next. American code words were used showing a knowledge of procedures that made the threat credible. Karl Rove, the president's senior adviser, told William Safire of the New York Times:When the President said 'I don't want some tinhorn terrorists keeping me out of Washington,' the Secret Service informed him the threat contained language showing the terrorists had knowledge of his procedures and whereabouts. It was decided to get airborne with a fighter escort. After the President landed at an air force base in Louisiana and made a tape for broadcast, he was, in Mr Rove's words, pretty antsy about not being at the centre of command. George Bush made clear to the Vice-President his intense desire to return to Washington. The Secret Service objected strongly. Mr Cheney, a former Defence Secretary, suggested Air Force One go to Offutt base in Nebraska, headquarters of the Strategic Air Command, where the president could convene the National Security Council. A White House official, quoted by Mr Safire, said It would have been irresponsible of him to come back, pounding his chest when hostile aircraft may have been headed our way. Any suggestion that he should have done so is ludicrous. The most puzzling aspect of the events concerns the credibility of the Air Force One is next message. It was clearly viewed as a threat, not a friendly warning - but if so, why would the terrorists send it? It is also unclear how they got the codeword information and transponder know-how. The worry now must be that knowledge of codewords, presidential whereabouts and secret procedures indicates the terrorists may have a mole in the White House - or the Secret Service, FBI, FAA or CIA. If so, America's war on terror may well have to start in its own front room. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send
[CTRL] UPI: Bush Sr.: Free up spy bodies
-Caveat Lector- Thursday, 13 September 2001 13:36 (ET) Bush Sr.: Free up spy bodies By KATHY GAMBRELL, UPI Washington Reporter WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Former President George H.W. Bush said Thursday that U.S. intelligence agencies need fewer restrictions in the wake of the terrorist attacks that leveled the World Trade Center in New York and heavily damaged the Pentagon. It is far more difficult to fight an enemy that won't show his face, Bush said from Boston. The senior Bush, who served as the nation's 41st president and as CIA director from 1976 to 1980, made his comments two days after the terrorist attacks that left thousands dead. The enemy is unpredictability and instability, Bush said. He said new dangers had emerged to take the place of the Soviet bear and superpower confrontation. All of this and more should reinforce the need for Americans to have the best possible intelligence in the world, Bush said. Human intelligence is kind of a dirty business and in it you have to deal with a lot of unsavory people, Bush said. He went on to say: If you are going to infiltrate some cell somewhere or a terrorist cell, you have to deal with people who are willing to betray their country, people who are willing to betray their friends, people who want money or other things. And it's not pleasant. The intelligence community, he said, must be freed up from some of its restraints to provide the president with the best information possible. He said lawmakers will have to take a hard look at whether the United States has gone too far in denying the people who run the intelligence community access to informants. He expressed confidence in his son President Bush's abilities to reach out to international leaders and members of Congress, saying he was doing the right thing. He said several people have called him to apologize for their premature judgments on the president's decision to land Air Force One at a military installation in Louisiana and then at a second military base in Nebraska, en route from Sarasota, Fla. He said: I have to confess to being a little annoyed at the attacks on him for following security procedures, not rushing right back to Washington. But as you've seen in today's (Thursday's) paper, there were some credible threats against the president and indeed on the White House itself. Bush also urged Americans not to unjustly blame Arab Americans and Muslims living in the United States for the attacks. We must guard against painting with such a broad brush that we cause innocent Arab-Americans or Islamic believers anywhere to come under unfair attack, he said in a statement. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Drudge: ROB LOWE: PRESIDENT CLINTON ONCE LET MY KIDS HANDLE NUKE SECRETS
-Caveat Lector- X DRUDGE REPORT X SUN SEPT 09, 2001 13:40:27 ET X WEST WING star Rob Lowe claims President Clinton once let Lowe's two children play with the special briefcase that holds the coordinates for the nation's nuke bombs! MORE Lowe says that during one White House visit -- the president did nothing as his kids toyed with the case across the South Lawn. My kids were carrying the football -- the briefcase with the nuclear coordinates with all of our launch codes, Lowe tells PLAYBOY magazine in fresh editions. My 7-year-old and 4-year-old had the nuclear launch codes of the United States. The episode occurred after Lowe and his family watched Clinton give a radio talk in the Oval Office, the actor reveals. But has Lowe been eating some of Aaron Sorkin's [executive producer of WING] fancy mushrooms? The White House Communications Agency says the football which contains the nuclear launch codes is not even kept by the President -- but instead carried by a military officer, who must undergo the nation's most rigorous security background check! http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/c3i/nuclear-football.htm And the EMMY goes to... Scott Jordan wrote: All I can say is, good thing Lowe's kids don't like to merrily punch buttons like mine do... ;-) --S. X DRUDGE REPORT X SUN SEPT 09, 2001 13:40:27 ET X ROB LOWE: PRESIDENT CLINTON ONCE LET MY KIDS HANDLE NUKE SECRETS WEST WING star Robe Lowe claims President Clinton once let Lowe's two children play with the special briefcase that holds the coordinates for the nation's nuke bombs! MORE Lowe says that during one White House visit -- the president did nothing as his kids toyed with the case across the South Lawn. My kids were carrying the football -- the briefcase with the nuclear coordinates with all of our launch codes, Lowe tells the magazine in fresh editions. My 7-year-old and 4-year-old had the nuclear launch codes of the United States. The episode occurred after Lowe and his family watched Clinton give a radio talk in the Oval Office, the actor reveals. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NM: Cheney: U.S. Will Drop Clinton-Era CIA Restrictions
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/9/16/151505.shtml Cheney: U.S. Will Drop Clinton-Era CIA Restrictions Carl Limbacher Monday, Sept. 17, 2001 The United States will revamp Clinton-era spy recruitment policies that have hampered U.S. intelligence agencies in the wake of last week's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, Vice President Dick Cheney predicted Sunday. The Cheney statement confirms a report, broken by Christopher Ruddy on NewsMax.com in the immediate aftermath of the attacks: CIA Officials Reveal What Went Wrong. Cheney announced the policy switch in response to a question from NBC's Meet the Press host, Tim Russert. RUSSERT: There have been restrictions placed on United States' intelligence gathering - a reluctance to use unsavory characters, those who violate human rights - to assist in intelligence gathering. Will we lift some of those restrictions? CHENEY: Well, I think so. I think one of the by-products, if you will, of this tragic set of circumstances is that we'll see a very thorough sort of reassessment of how we operate and the kinds of people we deal with. If you're going to deal only with sort of officially approved, certified good guys, you're not going to find out what the bad guys are doing. You need to be able to penetrate these organizations. You need to have on the payroll some very unsavory characters if, in fact, you're going to be able to learn all that needs to be learned in order to forestall these kinds of activities. The vice president added that the Bush administration would make certain that we have not tied the hands, if you will, of our intelligence communities. Just hours after the terrorists struck, a CIA source told Ruddy, NewsMax.com's editor in chief, that spy recruitment policies put in place by the Clinton administration had devastated the agency's ability to gather human intelligence. Ruddy reported late Tuesday: A regular NewsMax reader, Roger, was a CIA spy in the Mideast. I met him almost two years ago. Roger wanted to tell me why a gung-ho American quit the CIA in disgust. Roger said the CIA was not interested in recruiting spies. Clinton and company knew they could not just tell the CIA to stop recruiting spies. That would look stupid and embarrassing. So they just changed the rules of how spies are recruited, raising the bar on requirements to such a high degree that the most valuable spies could never meet CIA standards and couldn't work for us. Previously, I wrote how Clinton effectively stopped the recruitment of Chinese nationals by demanding that only high-ranking embassy officials could be recruited knowing this is almost impossible. Roger told me that. Roger reminded me again of this today. He noted that Clinton policies reached their zenith under CIA Director John Deutch and his top assistant, Nora Slatkin. The pair ran Clinton's CIA in the mid-1990s and implemented a human rights scrub policy. Here's how Roger described it in an e-mail Tuesday evening: Deutch and Nora, Clinton's anti-intelligence plants, implemented a universal 'human rights scrub' of all assets, virtually shutting down operations for 6 months to a year. This was after something happened in Central America (there was an American woman involved who was the common law wife of a commie who went missing there) that got a lot of bad press for the agency. After that, each asset had to be certified as being 'clean for human rights violations.' What this did was to put off limits, in effect, terrorists, criminals, and anyone else who would have info on these kinds of people. Roger says the CIA, even under new leadership, has never recovered from the Human Rights Scrub policy. Read Christopher Ruddy's report on the policies that led to our terrorist intelligence breakdown, CIA Officials Reveal What Went Wrong - Clinton to Blame. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http
[CTRL] NM: Defanged Intelligence Traced to Pressure on Torricelli From [girlfriend] Bianca Jagger
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/9/17/162056.shtml Defanged Intelligence Traced to Pressure on Torricelli From Bianca Jagger Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2001 WASHINGTON - One lawmaker's decision to give away CIA secrets in the mid-1990s led to the political pressure that ultimately scrubbed virtually all remaining CIA use of human spies. That, in turn, is believed by intelligence experts to have aided the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington Tuesday. In 1995, then-Rep. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., made secrets public at the behest of left-wing activist Bianca Jagger, then his girlfriend, according to Newark Star-Ledger columnist Paul Mulshine in the January/February issue of Heterodoxy. Torricelli, now a U.S. senator, gave away secrets he obtained through his membership on the House Intelligence Committee. This so outraged then-Speaker Newt Gingrich that he tried to have the New Jersey Democrat kicked off the panel. Later, Torricelli was criticized in a committee report for having compromised American intelligence-gathering abilities around the world, adding that numerous CIA sources had decided to stop giving information for fear they would be outed by a congressman. Intelligence agencies are extremely wary about who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, knowing that these have to be lawmakers who are thoroughly trustworthy when it comes to sharing some of America's deepest secrets. That is why there are intelligence analysts who have the jitters that Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif., is a current committee member. In his case, the fear is that scandal makes one vulnerable to blackmail. Mulshine's article showed how Torricelli's action in giving away the name of a CIA source in Guatemala was based not on fact, but on a conspiracy theory of the loony left, as Heterodoxy later characterized it. The lawmaker was accused of having leaped to a number of inaccurate conclusions about the CIA's role in the deaths of an American hotel owner named Michael DeVine and a Guatemalan guerilla named Efrain Bamaca Velazquez. In its 1997 report, the House Intelligence Committee had this to say about the antics of Torricelli, by then a senator: None of the allegations raised by Rep. Torricelli in the March 22, 1995 letter to the president [Clinton] or subsequent public statements concerning the involvement of the CIA in the DeVine and Bamaca deaths in Guatemala have proved true. Sen. Torricelli did not respond to repeated efforts by NewsMax.com to get his comment for this article. It was about the time of this well-publicized incident that the CIA's slide into a deteriorated human intelligence capability accelerated. As a former CIA spy in the Mideast told NewsMax CEO Christopher Ruddy, Clinton simply changed the rules of how spies are recruited. And it was done in such a way as to make it impossible to recruit effective human spies. The agency, then under Director John Deutch and his top assistant Nora Slatkin, implemented a human rights scrub policy. As former New York City Mayor Ed Koch noted to NewsMax.com Monday, effective spies are people willing to betray their comrades. Some terrorists order their members to commit crimes just to test them and make sure they are not undercover agents. People like that are not recruited from the ranks of choirboys. Or as Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Bob Graham has noted since Tuesday's attacks, effective human spies are not found in monasteries. Torricelli has been in the news recently because of a federal investigation into bribery allegations against him. The Nicaraguan-born Bianca Jagger, ex-wife of Rolling Stones rock star Mick Jagger, has appeared on Fox News Channel and other media outlets to promote environmental and other leftist causes and rail against America's use of the death penalty. She has also been romantically linked to Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector
[CTRL] FinCEN investigated G.W. Bush - Bin Laden Connection In '92
by Mahfouz, according to court documents. --Jerry Urban, 6/4/92 Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NYT: The Day Before Tuesday
, as vaporized as the faith that high-tech surveillance and weaponry would keep us safe. The America that saw Disney's Pearl Harbor is as far removed from the America that was attacked on Tuesday as the America that listened to Orson Welles's War of the Worlds was from the America attacked at Pearl Harbor. Instead of the next big thing being some new technological innovation or medical breakthrough, wrote David Rieff of our post-Tuesday nation in The Los Angeles Times this week, the next big thing is likely to be fear. For the America that is gone, the America that could have it all and feel no pain beyond that on cable TV, George W. Bush was the perfect president. We could have a big tax cut (or at least some of us could) along with increases in spending for better schools and defense - and all without having to dip into the Social Security stash. We could lick our energy crisis - does anyone still remember the energy crisis? - while still guzzling gas. Faith-based institutions would take care of the poor and unfortunate. No serviceman would have to spend any more time in harm's way than Mr. Bush (or most political leaders of his generation, regardless of party) did during Vietnam. Since Tuesday, there has been a towering leader in view - Rudolph Giuliani - and, in a lucid and rational Colin Powell, potentially another. The big-three network anchors have upheld pre-Drudge journalistic standards, offering reportage rather than blather and rumor, doing their part to steady a country that still gathers at the tube, not the computer screen, at a time like this. In all this we've been blessed, for there were 48 hours during which the president was scarcely visible or articulate. The country is rooting for Mr. Bush, as it must. We need him to become the president of the America we have now. This means in part a U- turn in style - more face time with his fellow citizens, less scripted rhetoric from the alliterative phrasemakers who stick pretty words in his mouth (as they did Tuesday night) that sound as if they were written by the same glib stylists who gave him home to the heartland and communities of character. But style is the easy part. What's more pressing are changes in content. Many of his administration's previous policies are either irrelevant or contrary to a war-bound nation's interests. Education and tax cuts are no longer our top priority. The unilateralism the administration has practiced in walking away from the Kyoto accord on global warming and the ABM treaty is anathema to the building of an international coalition to fight a war. Decisions that are the most profound of our time (as his handlers described his stem-cell verdict) can no longer be dragged out with weeks of self-aggrandizing spin. But most of all, Mr. Bush will have to prepare the nation for something many living Americans, him included, have never had to muster - sacrifice. In his pronouncements thus far, the president has expressed sorrow and vowed to whip evil, but surely he will soon have to prepare Americans to give up far more in wartime than curbside check-in at the airport. Anyone w ho lives in New York has seen this week how many Americans are prepared to do this. That's the example our mayor and governor set, and it's the example thousands of New Yorkers have followed with open hearts. Though polls show that we overwhelmingly support the idea of going to war, they don't indicate whether we understand that idea. The killers who attacked us on Tuesday had an all too ruthless eye for appraising how little we knew on Monday. We have no choice now but, as a horror- struck Hamlet said after being visited by the ghost, to wipe away all trivial fond records from the table of memory, and hope that our learning curve will be steep. Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http
[CTRL] NBC: Terrorists May Profit From Short-Selling U.S. Stocks Days Before Attack
-Caveat Lector- http://www.bearforum.com/cgi-bin/bbs.pl?read=181534 From NBC news: Sept. 15 - The Italian newspaper Corriere della Serra reported Saturday that associates of Islamic fanatic Osama bin Laden might have used short-selling to make a profit on Tuesday's terror bombing. The newspaper said the FBI is looking into possible short-selling of the stocks of reinsurance companies in the four trading days before the terrorist attacks on the United States on Tuesday. Short-selling can produce huge profits when a stock plummets because of bad news. REINSURANCE FIRMS ASSUME risk by providing backup insurance for insurance companies. The stocks of the three reinsurance companies - AXA in France, Munich Re in Germany and Swiss Re in Switzerland - dropped 13 percent to 15 percent in the week before the attack. Analysts suggested at the time that the drops were anomalous - unexplained - since the reinsurance business was healthy and premium payments were on the way up. In fact, before the terrorist attacks, the Financial Times on Tuesday published a positive report on the industry. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] WT: ...Reports ... bin Laden ... has ... nuclear device
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010915-470683.htm Bin Laden cohorts said in arms quest By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES A U.S. intelligence official said yesterday there are reports that bin Laden's organization has acquired some type of nuclear device. Osama bin Laden and his network have shown a strong interest in [chemical weapons], said former CIA intelligence chief John Gannon. Mr. Gannon stated at a recent conference on terrorists' use of weapons of mass destruction that the number of extremist groups seeking biological and chemical arms is increasing. We know that bin Laden's organization has attempted to develop poisonous gases that could be fired at U.S. troops in Gulf states, said Mr. Gannon, who now works with Intellibridge, a private firm. Commenting on future dangers, Mr. Gannon stated: If you don't get hit by a North Korean ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) over the next five years, chances are you will suffer a horrible, premature death when Osama bin Laden poisons your hometown water supply. Vince Cannistraro, a former CIA counterterrorism official, said bin Laden and his networks have gone into hiding since Tuesday's attacks, fearing retaliatory strikes from the United States. There have been intelligence reports indicating that bin Laden associates training in Afghanistan have been trying to develop chemical weapons, U.S. officials say. In 1999, bin Laden stated that his followers should seek to possess the weapons that could counter those of the infidels' and that doing so was a religious duty. Other attacks could be in the works, according to U.S. intelligence officials. However, counterterrorism specialists believe it is unlikely that future attacks will be like Tuesday's hijacking-suicide aircraft strikes. Security measures will be increased to make such attacks more difficult, driving terrorists to seek other targets and methods. Bin Laden's indiscriminate and large-casualty attacks show he is a prime candidate to use weapons of mass destruction, Mr. Cannistraro said. Is he willing to do that? Obviously, he keeps escalating the terrorist operations he pulls. Bin Laden-linked terrorists have been blamed for the embassy bombings in Africa in 1998, the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, and now for three successful attacks and an apparent failed one that involved a total of at least 19 suicide bombers, Mr. Cannistraro said. He added that Bin Laden's method is to never follow exactly the same pattern as the last attack, and that indicates he may move to weapons of mass destruction. Mr. Cannistraro said there are indications an Islamic front group in Chicago tied to bin Laden has invested in a company that produces chlorine for swimming pools. There are concerns the plant also could be used to produce chemical arms, he said. Mr. Gannon stated that the threat of terrorist attack using biological or chemical weapons is grave because the problem has not been defined well and federal authorities have not joined forces to deal with it. We are, as a result, more open to a serious incident and to surprise in general, Mr. Gannon said. Deadly biological weapons, such as anthrax, can be developed with minimal laboratory capabilities. It is more difficult to deploy them as weapons. Chemical weapons also can be produced with relative ease, as shown by the 1995 subway attack with Sarin nerve agent developed by the Japanese group Aum Shinri Kyo. There is also evidence bin Laden's umbrella organization al-Qaeda, the Base, is seeking nuclear weapons. A 1998 FBI complaint made public in New York stated that al-Qaeda has tried since 1993 to buy enriched uranium for the purpose of developing nuclear weapons. The State Department's latest annual report on international terrorism stated that the possibility of terrorist attacks using chemical, iological, radiological, nuclear or large explosive weapons remained real. Most terrorists continued to rely on conventional tactics, such as bombing, shooting, and kidnapping, but some terrorists -- such as Osama bin Laden and his associates -- continued to seek [chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear] capabilities, the report said. Terrorists willing to inflict large numbers of casualties may be attracted to such weapons, it said. Former State Department counterterrorism official Larry Johnson said bin Laden may be seeking weapons of mass destruction but that actually getting them and using them in terrorist attacks would be difficult. Still, if somehow he gets access to a weapon [of mass destruction], there is little to prevent him from using it, he said. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org
